Quotes About Doubt

I'm good at looking good with weapons and stunts. But if you put a bull's eye in front of me and asked me to hit it, I'd say the chances of me hitting it are about one in a million!

I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.

Back in the '90s, folks were not sure if they could trust the Web, and frankly, a lot of the services back then didn't provide massive value.

I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.

I just feel like this guy who's visiting the music business over the weekend. Every time I write a song, I feel like it's never going to happen again.

I was terrified about putting out 'Weekend.'

I still assume that, any day, I'm going to be exposed as a fraud. That, like I once heard Gene Hackman say, the acting police are going to burst in and take away my card.

For police officers who commit this violence, there has been no accountability. Cops are supposed to be held to a standard of conduct, but they always get the benefit of the doubt, inherently. They act like we ain't supposed to question nothing.

In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy.

Anybody is able to doubt me. I say, 'Come with your criticism to polish the diamond of the truth.' People need to wake up to their own power. Everybody has this nature.

I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice.

At first, you can play into the naivete that people think you have because you don't dress well. They almost give you the benefit of the doubt. But when success comes, that's no longer a good angle, so now you're 'a political animal.'

I'm not sure I had a political career for the future anyway. I'm not sure that politics was what I wanted to spend my life doing.

An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.

If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.

One shouldn't always assume polls are wrong, but if anyone learned anything from 2016 and 2018, it's that polls are not always right.

The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.

I don't know that we ever overcome doubt. We just have to remember that it's more than likely a poodle in the bushes and not a grizzly bear.

The press pool was taking bets on how many months I would last. There was nobody in the state who thought I had any shot at being a good senator.

You can go onto that stage every night, and it's always the equivalent of going onto the topmost diving board, and you don't know if there's any water in the pool.

I don't think I look like the pope's favorite Catholic - at least not under close scrutiny.

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple!

I was afraid I would get the Oscar for 'Irma La Douce' because it was popular. But I didn't want to because I didn't really think it was that good.

For years, when I was popular, I would face the blank page to write, and I couldn't think of anything that I thought was good enough.