Joey Skaggs Quotes

Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt.

Doubt is merely a thought. When experience proves it wrong, it will quickly go away.

If you haven't doubted, you probably haven't thought very hard about what you believe.

I have beliefs, of course, like everyone-but I don't always believe in them.

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

There are two kinds of doubt: one that fully lives into the questions, and one that uses the questions as weapons against fully living.

Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.

Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith.

The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.

Now I'm confused. Now I don't know what I want.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

I am the skeptic of skeptics.

Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of questioning, and it does this by pushing the idea that you have to have faith - and that nothing has to be proven.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man's land between Belief and Unbelief, Faith and Faithlessness. I'm capitalizing like a German, but it doesn't matter whether it's faith in a person or in God, or belief in science or whatever, it's the desperate in-between state that makes for interesting dramatic tension.

The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection.