Quotes About Doubt

There's times an angel can't be trusted, or so many wouldn't have lost themselves.

I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.

All kinds of evil flourish in suspicion. It is a perpetual breeder of the qualities that instantly work for evil, including secrecy and resentment.

Great doubt: great awakening. Little doubt: little awakening. No doubt: no awakening. —Zen mantra

Sometimes hope could be the most frightening thing in the world.

How do i know that what I see as blue and what you see as blue are the same thing? Answer: We don't. We take it on faith.

Like that. It's all right. It's not all right. It's right.

You think you're gonna find your soul. Ever since I've known you, you've been thinkin' that someday you're gonna crack and end up like your daddy. And you're been looking for proof that you won't. What you don't realize is this: the looking is the proof. Trust me when I tell you that Billy Dent never had a moment's doubt in his life about what he was and what he was doing. Your doubt is your soul

In the cold light of day, what seemed like a moderately ridiculous notion has become... surprisingly... possible.

that night, I don't bother asking the voice if it's time yet. Because for the first time that I can remember, I don't want to know.

Every night for almost as long as I can remember, I go to bed and I ask the voice in my head, "Is it time yet?" And every time, the voice says, "No. Not yet." [...] that night, the voice did not say "No." That night, the voice said, "Almost. Be ready." And then... And then Aneesa. Aneesa. [...] Tonight, I am afraid to ask the voice. I am afraid of what it will say. I am afraid to hear "Yes" and I am afraid to hear "No.

I consider it the me-equivalent of the Bible-most likely full of nonsense, but comforting to fantasize about.

What we don't realize is that the very option of being allowed to change our minds seems to increase the chances that we will change our minds.

Doubt is the ally of hope, not its enemy, and together they made all the blessing he had.

We begin by stating that religion is unbelief. It is a concern, indeed, we must say that it is the one great concern, of godless man.

Doubtful circumstances disclose undoubted friends.

He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.

No creo que cuestionar las cosas sea una enfermedad. La obediencia ciega sin cuestionamientos, es la enfermedad.

Doubt is a one hundred percent trust, in a belief you don't prefer. You are never really actually in doubt. You are always completely trusting in something.

Fear, f-e-a-r, is: False Evidence Appearing Real

David Hume, the great eighteenth century Scottish philosopher, had put the cat among the pigeons with his notion of scepticism: that nothing can be proved, except in mathematics, and that much of what we take to be fact is merely conjecture.

I think any start has to be a false start because really there's no way to start. You just have to force yourself to sit down and turn off the quality censor. And you have to keep the censor off, or you start second-guessing every other sentence. Sometimes the suspicion of a possible false start comes through, and you have to suppress it to keep writing. But it gets more persistent. And the moment you know it's really a false start is when you start ... it's hard to put into words.

And satan, having liberty to tempt and try us, will quickly raise up storms and waves before us, as soon as we are set to sea; which make young beginners often fear, that they shall never live to reach the haven.

Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future...