Quotes About Doubt

If there was no God to hear it, what difference did it make? But if there was . . .

Pascal's wager, to her mind: Although an atheist, Pascal said he would make a deathbed confession to God. If there was no God to hear it, what difference did it make? But if there was . . .

Although an atheist, Pascal said he would make a deathbed confession to God. If there was no God to hear it, what difference did it make? But if there was . . .

What none of these faiths—even the Hindu—did was doubt for one moment the existence of dark spirits, or their ability to jump from one living presence to another. Demons were considered parasites, infinitely malleable and indefatigable, hitchhikers of the soul, and as she read,

We must believe, or as Samuel Taylor Coleridge suggested, we must willingly suspend our disbelief.

a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

Belief and seeing are both often wrong.

It is not so much the lack of technical information that holds us back, but more the lack of self-confidence.

yet lack the courage to act on the answer.

My self-confidence was challenged.

Doubts and cynicism keep most people poor. Rich dad liked to say, "Cynics criticize, and winners analyze." Winners keep their eyes open and see opportunities everyone else missed.

Estimado señor, le ruego que deje de creer en mí.

You must hope and yet hope for nothing. Look up to something, yes, do that, because that is right for you, you're young, terribly young, Jakob, but always admit to yourself that you despise it, the thing that you're looking up to with respect.

Fanaticism is ... compensation for doubt

banking is like religion: you have to accept certain rather dicey things simply on faith, and then everything else follows in marvellous logic.

Can you trust me, he said. Not will you. Can you. Can I trust him? What do I have to lose?

when you are happy, when you have never been happy before, when you hadn't even known you weren't happy, it is hard to believe that it won't all go away again, isn't it?

stay committed to your mission, values, and the full self-expression of your inner leader even when people doubt you. When people say you'll fail or suggest you're not good enough, stand strong in your own skin and don't let them tear you down. Because leadership has a lot to do with believing in yourself when no one else believes in you.

you sense your life's a mess right now, this is simply because your fears are just a little stronger than your faith.

Limitarse no es nada más que una mentalidad que demasiadas personas buenas practican diariamente hasta que, para ellos, se convierte en una realidad. Me rompe el corazón ver a tanta gente potencialmente poderosa atrapada en una historia que les hace creer que no pueden ser extraordinarias, profesional y personalmente. Debéis recordar que vuestras excusas son seductoras, vuestros miedos, mentirosos y vuestras dudas, ladronas.

If you sense your life's a mess right now, this is simply because your fears are just a little stronger than your faith.

A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It's only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate." —Steven Pressfield

And you know what? If there is a God, and it's that same God who's so eager to have temples built in honor of his greatness, and wars fought over him, and people dropping to their knees telling him what a wonderful, magnificent being he is? If this all-powerful, all-knowing creature for some reason just can't get by without my worship? Then let him give me some proof. Or at least get over himself if I decide to go out and get some.

Sascha looked torn. Should she cram my head full of newfound terror that the world would reject me, or let me wander into the big, scary out-there, like a naive lamb prancing to the slaughter?