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Doubt Quotes


"Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible."


"There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything."


"The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt."



"I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when I feel like it. In the first place, I'm sort of an atheist. I like Jesus and all, but I don't care too much for most of the other stuff in the Bible. Take the Disciples, for instance. They annoy the hell out of me, if you want to know the truth. They were all right after Jesus was dead and all, but while He was alive, they were about as much use to Him as a hole in the head. All they did was keep letting Him down."


"That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward."


"A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt."


"Doubt never brings anything better, Doubt only gets the goodies of doubt! Shake your doubt!"


"In a country authored and sustained by criminal irresponsibility."


"I had to nurture those doubts as if they were tiny, sickly kittens, until eventually they became sturdy, healthy grievances, with their own cat doors, which allowed them to wander in and out of our conversation at will."


"My first mistake is to humanize God. My second mistake is to hold those wretched human characteristics up against all of the majestic things that I sense God should be. The blatant discrepancy which is certain to ensue then allows me to not only justify my rejection of Him, it grants me unbridled permission to discount His existence altogether. And that third and final mistake is without a doubt the most costly of all."


"If one has the answers to all the questions - that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble."


"Sometimes I feel certain that the hyenas are laughing at us."


"In the middle of the storm, the 'a' of the atheist drops!"


"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."


"Doubters only doubt what they doubt."


"His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, usolved doubt. He is one of those who doesn't want millions, but an answer to their questions."
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