Doubts Quotes - Page 3

Some people are so stiff and inhumane as the dogma's they believe in

Doubt whom you will but never yourself.

Doubt breeds doubt.

I am a woman who understands the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin still lie beyond me.

Much terror in religion is not the will of god, it is created by power hungry clerics who thirst for absolute power and claim it for god. God does not seek power, he is already powerful.

Every word that comes after "And the Lord told me. . . “is a pious lie

uncertainty is a path without an end. He who wants to completely do away with uncertainties before starting a purposeful journey of life shall always end a purposeful journey on the path of uncertainties without beginning any purposeful journey of life

To end with certainty we must begin with doubting.

Life is too short to have debts and doubts, Pay the bills, no regrets, be up and about.

Soon after a heart-wrung decision something inevitably occurs to cast doubt on your choice. Holding steady against that doubt usually proves your decision.

From a shy timid girl I had become a woman of resolute character who could no longer be frightened by the struggle with troubles.

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides never decides.

The more time you invest into studying religion, the more likely you are to disbelieve in the gods

We had better share our bewilderments. By hiding them from each other we should not hide them from ourselves.

There is nothing behind the curtains of religions, people put there whatever their imaginations can fathom

It is not through fighting the opposition that will win you dignity. It is when you fight the fear in yourself that asks you why you don't feel you have it, regardless if you win or lose.

He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.

Can really anybody put his hand on his heart and profess to know beyond doubt what happens on the other side of this life?

Cherish your doubts, for doubt is the handmaiden of truth.Doubt is the key to the door of knowledge; it is the servant of discovery.A belief which may not be questioned binds us to error,for there is incompleteness and imperfection in every belief.Doubt is the touchstone of truth; it is an acid which eats away the false.Let no man fear for the truth, that doubt may consume it;for doubt is a testing of belief.The truth stands boldly and unafraid; it is not shaken by the testing;For truth, if it be truth, arises from each testing stronger, more secure.He that would silence doubt is filled with fear;the house of his spirit is built on shifting sands.But he that fears no doubt, and knows its use, is founded on a rock.He shall walk in the light of growing knowledge;the work of his hands shall endure.Therefore let us not fear doubt, but let us rejoice in its help:It is to the wise as a staff to the blind; doubt is the handmaiden of truth.

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

Play with reason and doubt will close all the gates

Nothing perhaps is strange once you have accepted life itself the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.

You have to believe that your voice can mean something. You have to believe that what you do matters. And you have to keep going even on days you can't find that belief. If you can't do it for yourself, you do it for all the other young souls who need to be shown that things are possible. That they too can do that thing they dream of. You do it despite the doubts and the struggles. You do it because it's what you came here to do.That's what makes an artist.

Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper they are earthbound.

Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

Hope fuels your inspirations while doubts assault your aspirations!

Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

You can't have it both ways. Either you believe in my god or you go to hell

When in doubt do it.

An oak tree is just a small nut that persevered against the taunts of doubt and fear.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination which the steadfast heart will conquer and the large mind transcend.

All uncertainly is fruitful... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win by fearing to attempt.

Doubt is the first ray of illumination

If a man will begin with certainties he shall end in doubts but if he will content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable ... we must be content to creep along the ground and can never soar.

I think I look good out there. I'm strong powerful and artistic. But I have my doubts as much as anyone.

There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.

Every time I think that I'm getting old and gradually going to the grave something else happens.

Doubts are good. Confusion is excellent. Questions are awesome.All these are attempts to expand the wisdom of mind.

Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.

All people share doubts. The lingering question that eventually worms it way into all thinking people’s brain is how to live splendidly and how to die without remorse and regret.

Good gods are scarce because the majority of gods are created by evil men

Faith hasn't got no eyes but she's long-legged.

Why do religious believers hate unbelievers? The feel threatened by them, they feel besieged by them. Religions consider themselves as separate tribes in their own rights and feel like unbelievers will one day overrun their strongholds

I said here's the river I want to flow on here's the direction I want to go and put my boat in. I was ready for the river to take unexpected turns and present obstacles.

What is needed is not that a religion be true, meaning that what it claims exist beyond the ink it is written with in a holy book. That is hard to prove. What is important is that a religion be a good system to help us mere mortal deal with our short and troubled life in the universe. Whether what we hope for in the afterlife materializes or not is not important, what is important is that we believe it will materialize and that gives us hope.

Success comes to the people who never ever doubt themselves.

Life is like the dirt we bury our dreams and fears in. It blemishes the way. As things tend to grow by the rain of our belief or doubts.

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life. ... The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future.

Why doesn't the pope convert to Calvinism? Why doesn't the Dalai Lama, convert to Christianity, why doesn't Billy Graham convert to Islam, Why doesn't the Ayatollahs convert to Buddhism, Why isn't Buddhism swept away? Religious leaders know that all religions are equal; they know that no one of them has the monopoly to the knowledge of God. They know that each religion is trying to find the hidden God and that no one religion can claim to have found him beyond doubt. That's why they remain where they are and respect each other.

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

Confidence is what we get when we take fear, face it and replace it.

Throughout this life you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.

what makes you my friend if you doubt my intentions?

You take away my golden dreams and my visions of paradise, in its place you wake me up and hand me your reasons and facts and crude reality. You have ruined my life. If I commit murder or hang myself, let the god I used to pray to repay you in full.