To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence, it would be to doubt everything; and then what is life for?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.
There is something insane about a lack of doubt. Doubt - to me, anyway - is what makes you human, and without doubt, even the righteous lose their grip, not only on reality but also on their humanity.
Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.
You know what 'DOUBT' stands for? It stands for 'Debate On Understanding Bewildersome Thoughts.'
There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Doubt your doubts before you doubt your beliefs.
Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.