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Quotes About Doubt

Kühner, als das Unbekannte zu erforschen, kann es sein, das Bekannte zu bezweifeln.
~ Alexander von Humboldt
They probably didn't care if it was the real thing or not. They wanted it to be. And by suspending their disbelief they could believe in the illusion.
~ Alexandra Potter
People don't believe in positive changes anymore.
~ Alexei Navalny
Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief.
~ Alfred Bester
There's got to be more to life than just living," Foyle said to the robot. "Then find it yourself, sir. Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.
~ Alfred Bester
Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.
~ Alfred Bester
Je n'avais vécu que par cette femme ; douter d'elle, c'était douter de tout ; la maudire, tout renier ; la perdre, tout détruire. P 27
~ Alfred de Musset
If the President says, oh, Washington's got to change, and people are doubting whether my change can really happen, I think instead what the public's begun to see is the change they're seeing is not the change they voted for.
~ Eric Cantor
Fear is a waste of time.
~ Jeanine Pirro
People thought I was wasting my time and the company's money, for that matter.
~ Ralph H. Baer
I really loved Twin Peaks. When I saw the two-hour pilot, they screened it in the big theatre. I said, I don't know what is going to happen. I'm in this and I don't understand it. This is never going to sell. Who's going to watch this thing?
~ Sherilyn Fenn
You can have your own watch and always doubt it. If I had a watch I'd probably always be doubting it or the batteries would be dying. I just know that people always have trouble with their watches, and that's why I like public clocks.
~ Ben Katchor
My heart aches watching Donald Trump... pouring his heart out... How can anyone doubt his sincerity?
~ Jon Voight
I like watching different kind of shows, but I hate watching myself on TV. I feel I am a terrible actor.
~ Karan Wahi
For me, I want to say whether or not you believe in God - or a universe of any kind that's watching over any of us - you can have faith that things will go your way as much as you want to, and they won't.
~ Keala Settle
I've never quite trusted water; I don't think it's entirely healthy.
~ James May
My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.
~ David Knopfler
However, I don't doubt that a wave of immigration will come to Poland.
~ Aleksander Kwasniewski
I never went through a wave of hating Christianity, even though my parents were born-again Christians, and there were a lot of ideas that were being practiced that I think were misguided.
~ Adrianne Lenker
From my early 20s on, I would waver between atheism and agnosticism, never coming close to considering that God could be real.
~ Kirsten Powers
If you're not confident in yourself, you're going to waver. I've wavered, and I've lost.
~ Mary J. Blige
You still get these waves of doubt that come over you, for example, when you get a bad review or you accept a part and think, 'Oh, God, what have I just accepted? I can't do that.' I don't think that's something that will ever go away in me.
~ Ben Barnes
We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
~ Harriet Martineau
We cannot play with fear nor with too much confidence.
~ Thomas Tuchel