Quotes About Doubt

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

Magic is an art form where you lie and tell people you are lying.

You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn't serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else.

I constantly have a devil on my shoulder telling me that what I'm doing is really horrible, and then somehow the lightning strike happens, and everything comes together.

If you are going to go to a medium, go to a medium as a skeptic... and this is a medium telling you this! Because if someone is a medium and they are legit, they're not going to be shocked by skepticism, they're not going to be taken aback or intimidated by skepticism.

I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it.

Well, I - all cases to me have interest. Every case is important to somebody, the people litigating that case. But the most difficult case for me is the case where one person says a, the other person says b, and you just don't know for certain who is not telling you the truth.

It's like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn't be a boxer, so I quit.

I'm not sure people are ever completely comfortable telling pollsters what they do and don't think.

I felt like all of the American people did not believe me because of the things that were said about me, and said that people would say that it was just for the money, and it wasn't about the money. It was about what he did to me. And I knew I was telling the truth.

Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you.

Anybody who tells you they're not scared when starting a new book project is a very good liar.

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

If someone tells you over and over that everything's great, you immediately think, 'OK, what's the rest of the story?'

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

I didn't go to church, I didn't go to synagogue; I went to temple, Hindu temple, where I prayed to my Hindu gods - whether or not I believe in it is another story.

The Secret Revelation of John opens, again, in crisis. The disciple John, grieving Jesus' death, is walking toward the temple when he meets a Pharisee who mocks him for having been deceived by a false messiah. These taunts echoed John's own fear and doubt.

We always place that little word "but" after our wishes and desires, feeling deep down that there are some things too good to be true.

President Calvin Coolidge: "Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.

Amber interrupted him. 'But you'll still hurt me afterwards, won't you?' she asked hopefully.

Shane rode in a thoughtful silence. He had never much believed in God. He believed in Hell, for he had seen it with his own eyes, but to even think that there was a great and powerful benevolent force watching over mankind, like a distant but loving father, had always struck him as childishly optimistic.

You talkin' to me?

I have come to regret being right about anything anymore.

If the evidence is suspect, so is the result.