Doubt Quote by Annie Besant

“Certainty is the culprit. The spiritual person knows uncertainty—a state of mind unknown to the religious fanatic.”

— Anthony de Mello

“Religious faith represents so uncompromising a misuse of the power of our minds that it forms a kind of perverse, cultural singularity ― a…

— Sam Harris

“If a person is plagued by religious doubts,as many are in their youth, he takes to persecuting unbelievers; if troubled by love, he turns…

— Robert Musil

I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us.

— Sigmund Freud

Religion does not mean just precepts, a temple, monastery, or other external signs, for these as well as hearing and thinking are subsidiary factors…

— Dalai Lama

“Doubt with regard to what we ought to know is a condition too violent for the human mind; it cannot long be endured; in…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In matters of religion a skeptical mind is not a higher manifestation of virtue than is a believing heart, and analytical deconstruction in the…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

“Religion does not strengthen the believer. Without a healthy skepticism and honed skills in critical thought and analysis, believers wander through a jungle of…

— Al Stefanelli

Doubt is a necessity of the mind, faith of the heart.

— Comtesse Diane

The certainty with which a religious belief is held is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity

— Donald Morgan

“The test of character posed by the gentleness of God's approach to us is especially dangerous for those formed by the ideas that dominate…

— Dallas Willard

“When one believes, ‘I know it’, a veil of ignorance arises and it breaks one’s inclination towards spiritual inquiry.”

— Dada Bhagwan