Quotes About Doubt

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

I will say, this is something, this praying for people to die thing, that's something that I came to believe was unscriptural. And for years, I made these arguments to my family, in writing, privately in letters that didn't get responses and in interviews. And for a while, they just doubled down. Eventually, they came to stop doing it.

I'll always struggle over saying I'm a writer, even if I won the Booker Prize.

There's never been a moment where I sat down at my drawing board and thought, 'I'm a pro!'

I didn't know I was good enough to be a pro growing up.

From day one I knew Pro Elite didn't know what they were doing.

Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties.

It all comes down to probable cause: If you think something's up, maybe you gotta take a look.

A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.

I know for a fact that I'm problematic. I shouldn't be looked to for any kind of guidance.

If you want to be certain, you should never get married. You should never change jobs. In fact, you might as well just stay home. Because I don't know anybody who is certain. That need to be certain is just procrastination.

At the beginning of 'Friends,' Matt LeBlanc was anxious. Every time he did something, he would look for approval to the director, the producers or the writers if they were around. There would be a look of: 'Am I doing this right?'

There is no doubt that I, also, had long been aware of the problem, i.e. producing X-ray interferences, before the inherent difficulties had finally been surmounted.

I too once thought of producing a musical play on Tyagaraja. People fell at my feet, saying please don't commit such a folly.

My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.

If I feel insecure, then I am in the wrong profession. I have to trust my director and the material he has given me.

When I told my father that I wanted to join the film industry, he asked me if I was sure about it, as acting is a very insecure profession. He also asked me if my reason to join the same profession like him was to have an easy road. I said no.

Everyone has something that they carry always, even if it's just as simple as, 'I hate myself.' Everyone's got a different thing.

It's really important to differentiate between being sceptical and cynical.

I need to have people doubting me, because that's when you dig deep and find out what you're made of.

When I see my movies on the editing table, I do think I could have done them a certain way. The satisfaction is never there even when I'm directing a film. You need to have the feeling that you could have done this better.

We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must.