Quotes About Doubt

Science is based solely on doubt-based, disinterested examination of the natural and physical world. It is entirely independent of personal belief. There is a very important, fundamental concomitant - that is to accept absolutely nothing whatsoever, for which there is no evidence, as having any fundamental validity.

I have absolutely no sense of my success whatsoever, in fact, I only have a sense of not doing what I intended to do. I don't know who I am.

You can believe or you can doubt yourself. It's the difference between a gap being one metre late that you're gonna launch, then it's three seconds and you're sat on the wheel and you're about to lose.

I feel like there's no reason to put myself through what I put myself through for 20-something years on airplanes, especially these days. You don't know whether your pilot is going to drop dead over the ocean; you don't know when you try to land whether the wheels are going to come down; you can be searched and seized and detained and quarantined.

When in doubt, make no sense. No sense is good. And nonsense is good.

When in doubt, you bring in relatives. Nepotism is a part of my work.

When in doubt, I choose love above any particular ideas offered to me about faith.

Ethical decisions ensure that everyone's best interests are protected. When in doubt, don't.

When in doubt tell the truth.

When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.

When in doubt, wear a suit. Look at male politicians: you see them in a suit, and they look fine. But if you see a picture of them on the weekend or on vacation, there's a good chance they look terrible and unstylish.

When in doubt, put on a floral dress and ankle boots - that is always a great and easy go-to outfit.

I always have strong urges to sabotage myself. Whenever someone says they like something about my music, I tend to not want to do that anymore. It's not even that I don't like it anymore: it's that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

A question is a pursuit, an invitation to envision and explore a series of possibilities, to struggle and empathize and doubt and believe. The question moves, whereas our sense of what an answer is can often be static, a stopping point.

Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.

Photography seduces us into thinking we can believe photographs, whereas we can't really believe that a picture can tell us any kind of truth at all.

Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

The jury is still out on whether I'm a genius or not.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.