#Doubt

"Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings into the only divinity there is."

"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."

"Life is doubt,And faith without doubt is nothing but death."

"Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful."

"We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has."

"Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidencecould be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt."

"They had applied their doubts to the very head that had introduced doubt as a tool for advancing knowledge. And in the end they gave the head a nod."

"To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid."

"I have no doubt concerning that Supreme Goodness, who is so eager to share His blessings, or of that everlasting love which makes Him more eager to bestow perfection on us than we are to receive it."

"To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise, though not so foolish as to reject faith altogether because of lack of experience ... the quality of a Christian's experience depends on the quality of his faith, just as the quality of his faith depends in turn on the quality of his understanding of God's truth."

"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt."

"I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably."

"Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker."

"Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith."

"In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know."

"Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither."

"Many were the steps taken in doubt, that saw their shapeless ends in no time. Those who travail in faith today will truimph in joy tomorrow. Let faith lead the way."

"A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading."

"In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence."

"Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure."