Quotes About Doubting Thomas

#1. Novels arise out of the shortcoings of history.

Novalis

#2. I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious ... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

Thomas Huxley

#3. Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier

Thomas S. Monson

#4. If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner.

Lindsey Nelson

#5. The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other apostles in comparison. Thomas demanded evidence ... The other apostles, whose faith was so strong that they did not need evidence, are held to us as worthy of imitation.

Richard Dawkins

#6. When I write, it feels like there are two little creatures that sit on each of my shoulders. One whispers, "You can do this. You've got what it takes." The other sounds like my mother-in-law.

Carla H. Krueger

#7. I was always the Doubting Thomas of the bunch, and I don't think I was convinced about the Allman Brothers until 'Fillmore East' hit - that one removed all doubt!

Gregg Allman

#8. Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference.

Paul Davies

#9. Facts are stubborn things,

David McCullough

#10. Almost all the progress ever made in human thought has been made by the Doubting Thomas's, the questioners, the challengers, the show-me crowd.

Dale Carnegie

#11. Man had such impenetrable means to stop the outside world from coming in, and so little to stop our inside world from surging out, wrestling any foreign object into submission.

Olivia Sudjic

#12. I'm a bit of a Doubting Thomas - always worrying about things.

Kristin Scott Thomas

#13. When you are doubting whether a thing is worth the trouble of going to see, recollect that you will never again be so near it. You may repent not having seen it, but you can never repent having seen it.

Thomas Jefferson

#14. I just want to make scary movies," Jerome replied. "With occasional nudity.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#15. During the '90s, a lot of us in the indie film world were not making our money off our movies. We were screenwriters doing scripts for hire for studios.

Allison Anders

#16. What are the moral convictions most fondly held by barbarous and semi-barbarous people? They are the convictions that authority is the soundest basis of belief; that merit attaches to readiness to believe; that the doubting disposition is a bad one, and skepticism is a sin.

Thomas Huxley

#17. I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith.

Thomas S. Monson

#18. Two wrongs' create an additional problem.
'A wrong' plus 'A right' creates a remorse.
'Two rights' create a solution.

Emmanuel Aghado

#19. when you courageously believe in the power of doubt instead of the power of God, you much see the works of doubt and least see the works of God

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#20. The progressive and liberal mindset believes that to every problem there is a Washington, D.C., solution,

Jeb Bush

#21. Incest is almost always a devastating experience for
the victim.

Susan Forward