Quotes about Doubt

But in order to have an adult faith, most of us have to outgrow and unlearn much of what we were taught about religion.

Faith is not faith until it is tested!

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

You can't know, you can only believe - or not.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

The psyche's attachment to the brain, i.e., its space-time limitation, is no longer as self-evident and incontrovertible as we have hitherto been led to believe. … It is not only permissible to doubt the absolute validity of space-time perception; it is, in view of the available facts, even imperative to do so.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.

Chile with the purpose of finding her lover and becoming his slave forever, believing that was the way to extinguish her thirst to submit and her hidden wish for possession, but now she doubted that she could give up those new wings beginning to sprout on her shoulders.

What a man believes, he will die for. What a man merely thinks, he will change his mind about.

Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.