Quotes About Doubt

Twelfth is a brittle fundamentalism that has caused many who came from such a background to eventually grow out of and renounce it.

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One factor is skepticism about institutional religion of all sorts

The making of a champion is one not given the benefit of the doubt on rumored abilities.

Maybe you're going insane." "Maybe," agreed Kernel. "I was joking." "I wasn't.

And by this experience his knowledge was reduced to diffidence, so that when asked how sounds were created he used to answer tolerantly that although he knew a few ways, he was sure that many more existed which were not only unknown but unimaginable.

He was their leader, and a leader must never admit to doubts.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means.

If you or I have a doubt that really bothers us, though, we're likely to respond very differently. We're likely to treat that doubt as if it were a sign of danger, rather than the usual discomfort we can feel about uncertainty. When you get tricked into treating the discomfort of doubt as if it were danger, this leads you to struggle against the doubt, trying to remove the unwanted thoughts from your mind.

When you've been falsely accused of serious crimes as often I have, you learn to recognize the oncoming inevitability of the next one.

best songwriting partner I've ever had, but besides that, he's a pretty good guy. We have a sort of history together, but I won't go into that. I just have a bad feeling about this, and I don't think we're gonna see him again." Sam got back into his

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who need certitude, and those who quest for understanding.

There's a part of me that knows that I'll never die. There's a part of me that knows better.

Mr Mann … Sorry, is that really your name?" "Yes," said Mr Mann, frowning. He was sitting opposite Mr Carter's desk. Miss Malik was next to him. "As in … like … Mister Man?" "Brian Mann is my name, yes. As I've said.

Making art now means working in the face of uncertainty ; it means living with doubt and contradiction, doing something no one much cares whether you do, and for which there may be neither audience nor reward. Making the work you want to make means setting aside these doubts so that you may see clearly what you have done, and thereby see where to go next. Making the work you want to make means finding nourishment within the work itself.

Making art can feel dangerous and revealing. Making art is dangerous and revealing. Making art precipitates self-doubt, stirring deep waters that lay between what you know you should be, and what you fear you might be.

But curiously, while artists always have a myriad of reasons to quit, they consistently wait for a handful of specific moments to quit. Artists quit when they convince themselves that their next effort is already doomed to fail. And artists quit when they lose the destination for their work — for the place their work belongs.

They say this is global warming: I say this is poppycock.

While the optimists have answers to life's big questions, they are not the right ones, or so I shall argue. Their answers are believed, when they are believed, because people so desperately want to believe them, and not because the force of arguments supporting them makes it the case that we must believe them.

Maybe God is on the side of the werewolves.

Azra, it must be recorded, had never any confidence in her son; and was the only woman, Jurgen felt, who really understood him.

To believe that we know nothing assuredly, and cannot ever know anything assuredly, is to take too much on faith.

And how should I know whether or not I speak the truth?" the God asked of him, "since I am but the illusion of an old woman, as you have so frequently proved by logic.