Doubt Quotes - Page 83

Everyone who observes himself doubting observes a truth, and about that which he observes he is certain; therefore he is certain about a truth. Everyone therefore who doubts whether truth exists has in himself a truth on which not to doubt.... Hence one who can doubt at all ought not to doubt the existence of truth.

If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide-because he kills not merely a man but a near relative-without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself.

When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

If you can think outside the box or you can think bigger than that, then that will keep you centered in this earth, in this planet. I think with me I always believed in God but after certain things happened to me that's when I knew without a doubt.

I know it when I don't know it. Sometimes I know it when I don't think I know it. I need to trust myself in these moments, these rare moments of self-doubt.

It is infinitely safer to know that the man at the top has his doubts, as you and I have ours, yet has the courage to move ahead in spite of these doubts.

Many thanks for the sending me the book Biology of the Striped Skunk ... Frankly, I doubt whether I shall read it or not, unless I happen to have some intimate contact with a skunk which may induce me to learn more about him.

Do I want to start my own production company? No, I doubt it. I'm too old for that. I don't want to start anything.

A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.

Christianity also stands in opposition to intellectual, as well as physical, health. To doubt becomes sin. 'Faith means not wanting to know what it true' a description that strikes me as stunning and quite exact.

Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither.

If there's any place where you would express your deepest doubts, it would be church.

I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.

The point is, there are some things worth dying for. There's no doubt about that. And I would die for my family. I would die for my freedom. I would die for my country.

The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other apostles in comparison. Thomas demanded evidence … The other apostles, whose faith was so strong that they did not need evidence, are held to us as worthy of imitation.

Fire the doubters out of your life.

I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.

In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of perspiration; gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice.

Unless you have the courage to doubt you will never come to know the truth.

I doubt if you get another Wu-Tang Clan. That might be harder than getting the new Jackson Five

The open road is the school of doubt in which man learns faith in man.

No one can take Jesus away from me.... There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace.

We doubt that any facts actually exist. We only have observations and interpretations. Most of the interpretations remain questionable.

Eisenstein was a good editor. I was trained as a film editor, and I've no doubt that the editor is key to a film.

Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.