2,035 Quotes About Doubt

To believe with certainty, somebody said, one has to begin by doubting.

Doubts are good. It means you are alive and searching. One does not become a believer overnight. He thinks he is a believer; then something happens in his life and he becomes an unbeliever, after that, he becomes a believer again and then an unbeliever again, and so on. Until we reach a certain stage, we constantly waver. This is the only way forward. At each new step, we come closer to the Truth.

Do not doubt the beauty of your heart.

Doubt was a giant-sized beast with heavy boots that pounded through the cities of the mind, sparking an occasional life only so Hope could rise again for a splendid recrushing. Doubt reveled in nothing more than destroying Hope. And Hope, being immortal, lived out its days with blithe indifference to its regular obliteration. Neither cared at all about the suffering they caused: Doubt because it enjoyed suffering; Hope because it was too stupid to recognize it.

The search to know has always been characterized by the need to doubt, the need to be critical, including the need to be self-critical.

...I don't know where a utopia is supposed to be, or where one could be found. I sometimes think that it is the place where fear and doubt end with the realization that around you is everything you need, and there is nothing else to find.

A good place can always be found in a place you think there is pain.

(Meanwhile, other people seem to be getting along with God just fine, very well indeed. Why not me?)

No word of ignorance leaves no double thoughts on a plain page with a headline without extra lines of madness marked on it.