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Quotes About Doubt

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.
~ Robert Hughes
Do you always believe in the life to come? Mine was always that.
~ Samuel Beckett
To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.
~ Oscar Wilde
I believe that either Jupiter has life or it doesn't. But I neither believe that it does, nor do I believe that it doesn't.
~ Raymond Smullyan
Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'
~ Sydney J. Harris
While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
~ Sarah Vowell
Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers.
~ Bruce Springsteen
God wants to cast out the fear and doubt in your life. Go before Him right now and say, "Lord, this is what I am afraid of ..."
~ Charles Stanley
All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
When we are not sure, we are alive.
~ Graham Greene
Sometimes my life just don't make sense at all. The mountains looks so big and my faith just seems so small.
~ Rich Mullins
Life consists of burning up questions.
~ Antonin Artaud
Why would anyone get married and have babies? That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard in my life. Or the scariest thing I've ever heard in my life.
~ Aziz Ansari
I doubt about myself. I think doubts are good in life. The people who don't have doubts I think only two things-arrogance or not intelligence.
~ Rafael Nadal
If there is one thing I would banish from earth, it is fear. And the only way to do that is to see that there is nothing to fear - nothing in all of life to be afraid of.
~ Henry Ford
If you doubted your fears instead of doubting your dreams, imagine how much in life you'd accomplish.
~ Joel Brown
One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided.
~ Willy Russell
Our greatest problems in life come not so much from the situations we confront as from our doubts about our ability to handle them.
~ Susan L. Taylor
So much of 'normal, civilized' life is bull that you can't imagine... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.
~ James Clavell
Assumption Theory: The only safe assumption in life is that the person who assures you that everything is all right is all wrong.
~ Robert Ringer
It's only when you panic that you pull yourself under and sink
~ Jennifer Niven
Sometimes, Ultraviolet, things feel true to us even if they're not.
~ Jennifer Niven
I write: Reason for not jumping: Too messy. Too public. Too crowded.
~ Jennifer Niven
No!" said Sofia. "I read! Self-help can be very useful." She gave her sister a meaningful look. "Really?" said Carmen. "As useful as Rainbow Rowell? Or Douglas Adams? I doubt it.
~ Jenny Colgan