Quotes About Doubt

What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt.

Ninety percent of the time when I'm working, there's this very palpable sensation that I'm doing everything wrong and should just give up.

Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees.

I'm trying not to put myself into anything I'm not 100 percent confident about.

That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity.

I asked the question, 'Will I ever perform again?'

I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that.

When you see my performances, even people that you might have known, like Nicky Barnes in 'American Gangster,' you have to get over the fact that I look like Cuba Gooding, Jr. But once you find truth in the performance, if I'm doing my job right, you believe everything.

I can give you a definite perhaps.

Most people who are writers go through periods when they can't write.

We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.

I think Im addicted to periods of doubt and low confidence. I think you should worry if you dont have them because then youre not trying hard enough.

I live in a perpetual state of fear.

The road to perseverance lies by doubt.

It's after college that I started to tell myself that you have to persevere, and you have to sit in discomfort and let all the doubts and questions you have... they sometimes just have to sit around you, and you can't answer them.

Sire, I have no need of that hypothesis.

if there be some points which correspondence can never settle, but which can be made clear by conversation in two minutes, at other times just the opposite is the case: an objection clearly stated in writing, a doubt well expressed, which elicits a direct and positive reply, helps things along more than ten hours of oral intercourse!

Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là

Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse.

Niekas taip neskatina žmogaus veikti, kaip troškimas nustebinti tuos, kurie juo abejoja.

Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.....

So as this only point among the rest remaineth sure and certain, namely, that nothing is certain.

With a grain of salt.

In these matters, the only certainty is that nothing is certain