Quotes About Doubt

If they take their children to doctors, they believe they are putting their faith in man instead of in God.

Look at something like boxing. People know that some fights are fixed, but nobody looks at a boxing match and automatically assumes it's fake.

Now, I am not saying that the world is flat, but it could be.

I didn't quite get 'If I Loved You.' I didn't understand what they're saying. 'Why are they saying if? Are they flirting? Is she being coy? Does she know what she's getting into?' I didn't understand this woman.

There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't know if I'll ever make a record, or if this is always going to be something just floating around in my head.'

I am a human, and I fear flops.

I don't think of faith as something that's like a rock, that never changes. I think it's something that's very fluid, always changing.

Everything that turned out well for me seems like a fluke. I feel like, at any moment, I could lose everything and be working at Dunkin' Donuts.

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.

People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.

Some folks run from the doubt and go backward. You try for all the spiritual Band-Aids you can find... when actually, what you need to do is press forward, to accept those doubts and work through them.

If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.

The public can't be fooled all the time.

You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.

Everybody doubts themselves. Every writer doubts themselves, every artist doubts himself, and every football player does.

People at school used to assume I was going to be a footballer, and it wasn't until I got to 16, when I was at Southampton, that I had a doubt for the first time in my life. Southampton said I wasn't big enough, but it was just because I hadn't grown. Simple as that.

I didn't think I was going to make it as a footballer.

If you ask any footballer, if you haven't won a game all season you're not going to be confident.

I do have a little bit more confidence in - or at least familiarity with - my process. For example, when it feels like it's going badly or that I'm lost, I know I'll eventually find my way because I've been through it before. But writing itself is still hard.

I don't think I have the power to forgive.

In a certain sense, every time you sit down to write a song, there's a fear that you've forgotten how to do it.

Until a book starts forming in your head, you always wonder, 'Am I going to be able to do this again?'

For me, a spiritual and existential crisis is the same thing in that your foundation gets rocked.

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.