2,035 Quotes About Doubt

So let's make a deal. I will try to do the best I can to do good in the world. I will serve others, and I will work against suffering. But I have to keep asking these questions about your justice and mercy. And I can't forget about science. Let's just keep talking about this, You an I. I don't ever want to be away from you again. I can't do that anymore.

Conscious doubt is not in the repertoire of System 1; it requires maintaining incompatible interpretations in mind at the same time, which demands mental effort. Uncertainty and doubt are the domain of System 2.

Doubt can paralyze you, can make you not want to do anything. But if you learn to channel it, to turn those feelings away from yourself and out at the world you can doubt what's impossible.

Hope persists, and its voice is compassion, and honest doubt.

Doubt without reason will not be made.

The road to success isn’t necessarily the road to happiness.

My problems are not in the same country as hers and Ima's. They're not on the same map. Does that make them less valid?

So it is with us all, we're not so one-or-the-other. The one who puts on the clothes in the morning is the working majority, but at night-perhaps in the moment before unconsciousness- we meet our sleeper- the priest is visited by the doubter, the Marxist sees the civilizing force of the bourgeoisie, the captain of the industry admits the justice of common ownership.

Closing my eyes, I pushed from my head whatever faults I thought I'd heard in myself, because if my father has taught me anything, it was that the whole of a song was always greater than the sum of its parts.