Doubting Quotes

“If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty

“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.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“All religions are man-made; God has not yet revealed himself beyond doubt to anybody.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“The more “in doubt” you are, the more serious you are, and the less alive you are.”
― Meir Ezra

“Time is a continuous doubt. When you don’t have time, know you are in doubt.”
― Meir Ezra

“Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people in the world”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“Every time you are in doubt, you are actually killing yourself. Decide!”
― Meir Ezra

“As long as you are in doubt, you are an effect.”
― Meir Ezra

“There is nothing behind the curtains of religions, people put there whatever their imaginations can fathom”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“Just remember: If you make unfounded assumptions before choosing a path, you’re blindly sauntering along.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“If I'd been a cowboy, it might've ended well.
Somewhere on the ramble, I'm sure I'd have to sell
My guns along the highway. My coins to the table
To make a gambler's double, I'd double debts to pay.
Prob'ly shrink and slink away, It mightn't've ended well.

What If I'd been a sailor? I think it might've ended well.
From August to May
For a searat of man drifting through eternal blue, aboard the finest Debris.
I might've called the shanties. From daybreak to storm's set, lines stay Taught, over rhythm unbroken.
But, oh, there's a schism unspoken, a mighty calling of the lee.
An absentminded Pirate, unaccustomed to the sea;
To the land, a traitor. I think it mightn't've ended well.

What might've worked for me? What might've ended well?
Soldier, to bloody sally forth through hell?
Teacher of glorious stories to tell?
Man of gold, or stores to sell?
Lover to a gentle belle?
Maybe a camel;
A seashell.
What mightn't've been a life where it mightn't've ended well?”
― Dylan Thomas McCall

“Occupy your thoughts with purpose and you will be so busy pursuing a meaningful future there will be no time for doubt, chaos and disappointment.”
― Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity

“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.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“Once you believe that god is not a private property of anybody, you are on your way to becoming a new messiah. Maybe your own if not the world's”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“I don’t know when I started to realize that my country’s past was incomprehensible and obscure to me, a real shadowy terrain, nor can I remember the precise moment when all that i’d believed so trustworthy and predictable—the place I’d grown up, whose language I speak and customs I know, the place whose past I was taught in school and in university, whose present I have become accustomed to interpreting and pretending I understand—began to turn into a place of shadows out of whcih jumped horrible creatures as soon as we dropped our guard. With time I have come to think that this is the true reason why writers write aboutn the places of childhood and adolescence and even their early touth: you don’t write about what you know and understand, and much less do you write because you know and understand, but because you understand that all your knowledge and comprehension is false, a mirage and an illusion, so your books are not, could not be, more than elaborate displays of disorientation: extensive and multifarious declarations of preplexity. All that I thought was so clear, you then think, now turns out to be full of duplicities and hidden intentions, like a friend who betrays us. To that revelation, which is always annoying and often frankly painful, the writer responds in the only way one knows how: with a book. And that’s how you try to mitigate your disconcertion, reduce the space between what you don’t know and what can be known, and most of all resolve your profound disagreement with that unpredictable reality. “Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric,” wrote Yeats. “Out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.” And what happens when both quarrels arise at the same time, when fighting with the world is a reflection or a transfiguration of the subterranean but constant confrontation you have with yourself? Then you write a book like the one I’m writing now, and blindly trust that the book will mean something to somebody else.”
― Juan Gabriel Vásquez, La forma de las ruinas

“Disappointments and humanity go hand in hand & there’s absolutely nothing we can do about it – other than taking the first step by setting an example ourselves but remember even Superman was hated by Lex Luthor (a “friend” at first; a foe later).”
― Sijdah Hussain, Red Sugar, No More

“It's true not because it's beyond doubt, but because we believe it to be true. We make it true. We are safe as long as no one can disprove us”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“Though shalt doubt everything before accepting them as fact.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom

“...doubt has a way of making quicksand of stable ground.”
― Erin Summerill, Ever the Hunted

“If you're in doubt, you’re right, trust your instincts.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“God has not yet revealed himself to no one in no unclear terms. Religions are attempts to find him; on that level they are all equal”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“Doubt is the first ray of illumination”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“I believe despite my doubts, belief gives me power reason takes away”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“Once you “believe” that you can do it and do take the first step forward, stop doubting yourself.”
― Nabil N. Jamal

“Don’t curse the gods; you will feel shame when you have to call on them for help”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“If you can repeat what you are saying to others, to yourself, there is no doubting you!”
― Kamini Arichandran

“To call God’s calling into question is not really about questioning God. Rather, it’s about calling my sanity into question.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Everywhere he went, he met people belittling him, maligning his knowledge, each imitating the behavior of the other in the manner of ants, till he felt a tide building up around him, threatening to tear him down. They doubted his learning, many of them not even qualified to make any form of judgment on his work, or without having examined the charges they were throwing at him, all hankering after a notion floated around by Malavika’s father himself, that his son-in-law was a fraud.”
― Mukta Singh-Zocchi, Game of Big Numbers

“Faith, without doubt, moves mountains. Faith with doubt might move anthills, maybe even molehills, but forget the mountains.”
― Sebastien Richard, Kingdom Fundamentals: What the Kingdom of God Means and What it Means for You | A Thorough and Biblical Exposition of the Kingdom of Heaven as Preached by Jesus

“Doubting your judgments is the beginning of enlightenment.”
― Sayem Sarkar