Quotes About Doubt

Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.

Any big organization can be subverted by governments or multinational special interests. They have the resources to cast doubt and fear over any group they feel threatened by.

Republicans don't believe government works, and get into it to prove it will fail. Same with strippers and relationships.

No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question is not what we wish, but what is practicable.

Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?O'Brien: Of course he exists.Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?O'Brien: You do not exist.

When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I'm not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore.

A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

I never will believe there is such a thing as a great actor.

Whenever I find myself arguing for something with great passion, I can be certain I'm not convinced.

There's so many great things that come with being successful. The one thing that is weird is trying to figure out whose intentions are in the right place, and who is really on your team.

Unbelievers enjoy the security of their unbelief; there is great confidence in ignorance.

There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

Act on your inner guidance, and give up your need for 'proof' that your inner guidance is authentic. The more you ask for proof, the less likely you are to receive any.

Many say they can't get God's guidance, when they really mean they wish He would show them an easier way.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

If envy is red and doubt is black then happiness is brown. I looked from the little brown stone to the tiny brown freckle to her huge brown eyes.

Even while you are in doubt, there will be an answer you will arrive to. Even while you are in pain, your happiness will be waiting.

When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.

When unhappy, one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing.

When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.

When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.