Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

Man, I'm sick of doubt.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.

I'm always doubtful. Everything I do is always doubtful. When you're trying to differentiate, there's going to be this gut sense, is this right? If you're not having doubt, then you're not pushing it hard enough, or you're not looking at the details close enough. You need to be feeling that doubt every single day.

We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty.

I don't like quintessential certitude.

It is only doubt that creates.

Was it someone else? Was it not you yourself?

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

I still harbor lingering doubts about most people. I guess I always will.

Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.

When in doubt, doubt the doubt!

A lot of people had doubts. I tried to tell people I never had doubts.

My mind is clouded with a doubt.

In my life, the only certainty is to be uncertain. I'm an unbeliever who believes in skepticism. I'm only sure about being unsure.

Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

I have doubts! I have such doubts!

Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.

It is necessary to sleep upon the pillow of doubt.

So when people ask me if there's another one, I say, "You know, I don't think so, but I don't know, and I kind of don't understand why."

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

The other guys are selling certainty. Not me. I'm on the corner with doubt.

Where doubt is, there faith has no power.

When life gives you lemons....they could really be oranges.