Doubt Quotes - Page 28

I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It.

An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence. Because God can be relegated to remote times and places and to ultimate causes, we would have to know a great deal more about the universe than we do now to be sure that no such God exists. To be certain of the existence of God and to be certain of the nonexistence of God seem to me to be the confident extremes in a subject so riddled with doubt and uncertainty as to inspire very little confidence indeed.

No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.

How could one comfort a disturbed person? He is already assailed with doubts about his faith. He would have to despair with such a doctrine. Rather one must seek to convince him that the Savior is there for him, has already forgiven him, and has already accepted him. As soon as one makes faith even in the least a requirement for justification, one takes from such a person all the comfort of the Gospel.

Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt.

It's hard for me to describe the joy I felt after I stood up and rode wave in for the first time after the attack. I was incredibly thankful and happy inside. The tiny bit of doubt that would sometimes tell me you'll never surf again was gone in one wave.

I mean its an obsession, you follow the obsession but at the same time you have so many doubts, you know. Why am I wasting so much money going back to this place, taking more pictures? What’s the point of it? No one cares about it. I think I care about it but maybe I am deceiving myself.

When teachers doubt your potential, show them how wrong they truly are.

It's okay to doubt yourself, it's okay to feel down; just never give up.

In doubt if an action is just, abstain.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

We cannot know what faith is if we have never had it, and we cannot obtain it as long as we deny it. Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

Not far from the invention of fire we must rank the invention of doubt.

When you know beyond all doubting that the same life flows through all that is, and you are that life, you will love all naturally and spontaneously.

The melancholy have the best sense of the comic, the opulent often the best sense of the rustic, the dissolute often the best sense of the moral, and the doubter often the best sense of the religious.

When in doubt, be ridiculous.

Turn your love into promises, that when you doubt your love, you may simply ask, "Am I keeping my promises?"

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

Doubt is merely a thought. When experience proves it wrong, it will quickly go away.

There is no doubt that we live in an age of unprecedented, and sometimes terrifying, technological advance where the speed of advance so often outstrips the necessary ethical considerations.

I seek strength, not to be greater than other, but to fight my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself

As commonly understood, creationism involves belief in an earth formed only about ten thousand years ago, an interpretation of the Bible that is still very popular. For the record, I have no reason to doubt that the universe is the billions of years old that physicists say it is. Further, I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.

Know what you want, decide when you want it, figure your plan of action, follow through on it, and never doubt.

When in doubt take a bath