Quotes About Doubt

Who knows, maybe I am simply a talented architect?

To this day, I haven't felt like I've made it. I'm waiting for them to pull the rug out from under me. I kind of feel like George Plimpton; I'm just experiencing this whole business with the really talented people.

Cheever constantly voiced doubts about his writing. Reading 'The Naked and the Dead' made him despair of his own 'confined talents.'

All of us know that Messi cannot win alone, except for the fanatics or the mental patients who put in doubt Messi's talents, saying that he is a bottler, that he feels nothing for Argentina, that he doesn't sing the anthem, that he goes to the bathroom 50 times before a game. Those are things that are said to make an impression.

On talk shows I ask myself, 'What am I doing here?'

You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

The things that Billy Graham says, I really have no idea why he says them. He talks about things without really knowing all the facts. I just think there's something wrong with the man.

I so often doubt how much people on television believe what they're saying. They're playing roles for think tanks or political parties or shills of whatever stripe.

The imagination is a cynic.

Assuming you can write clear English sentences, give up all worry about communication. If you want to communicate, use the telephone.

Let us not pretend to doubt in philosophy what we do not doubt in our hearts. (Peirce 1992, pp. 28–9)

Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him one doubted Him one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?

The great sea makes one a great sceptic.

Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.

But she's not going to call the cops or stab me in my sleep, and what more can you ask of a pretty girl?

You still think I have a good side?" "There's a search party out for it but I'm optimistic they'll turn up something.

You ready for this?" "Of course not. Are you?" "Not even a little.

Try to stay calm," I say as I shove She-Ra into my pocket. "Things are going to be okay." But I'm not 100 percent sure who I'm trying to convince, and even as I step into a shadow for Max Overdrive I have a bad feeling I'm wrong.

Look at my face. I didn't get these scars in pillow fights." That seems to convince her. Never doubt the power of ugly.

Maybe I'll live long enough to find out. The way the day is going, though, I'll be lucky to make it through the appetizer course.

Our doubts are traitors..." William Shakespeare

Learning to treat people with respect, and learning give them the benefit of the doubt, is one of the core skills that turn a smart architect into an effective one.

Yup, I think it's in the Virgins.