#doubt

A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#friendship #loneliness #friendship

If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation. ↗

— Yann Martel

#life

OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#another #athlete #basketball #doubt #i

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth. ↗

— Peter Abelard

#doubting #investigate #investigating #recognize #truth

Those mortals who operate in the grey area between conviction and incredulity are in a position to choose most meaningfully, and with most meaningful consequences […] Perhaps only a doubter can appreciate the miracle of life without end. ↗

— Terryl L. Givens

#doubt #grey-areas #seeking #life

But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest animal, be trusted when it draws such grand conclusions? ↗

— Charles Darwin

#darwinism #evolution #human-mind #macro-evolution #macroevolution

Doubts in your mind are a much greater roadblock to success than obstacles on the journey. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#obstacles #success #life

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

#doubting #doubts #effort #efforts #mankind

Watching you stand alone, all of my doubt suddenly goes away somehow. ↗

— The Band Perry

#love #love

Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's old age, is one of the keys to our century. A touchstone of modernity itself. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#modernity #age