Quotes About Doubt

Every time you love someone, you put not just your faith in them, but your faith in everything to the test.

Managers have people second-guessing them all the time.

Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock.... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.

Was there ever a time when the majority was right?

By the time I was about ten, I had started to lose faith with church ways. I was educated in some ways by my high school government and history teachers.

Every Christian in every time and place is going to be tempted by certain forms of heresy. I'm sure I'm tempted by my own.

When I entered college, I thought that I wanted to be a lawyer, but by the time I was set to graduate, I was not too sure of that.

Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.

The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.

There was a period of time in Los Angeles when I wondered if I was just going to lose everything.

Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.

For a long time, there has been lingering doubt among many Americans about integrity and fairness of elections. And it's not a new issue at all. If you look at polling data, it goes back decades.

When you spend all your time worrying that the devil is right behind you, eventually you start seeing him whether he's there or not.

I'd learned a long time ago that you can't prove a negative. You can prove that you did something, but it's the devil to prove you didn't do something.

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

I know that I may never be a star. This could all just go away at any time. I know that just because I have a record out doesn't mean I'm going to make it

I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.

I go into every story thinking I'm going to fail. I think about that all the time - I think it's going to be terrible. Every story is like the first I've ever done.

I get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don't really know where that comes from, because I think I'm actually the opposite of a cynic.

My vulnerability is thinking that I am not worth people's time or space at times.

There is no security, no assurance that because we wrote something good two months ago, we will do it again. Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we ever did it before.

There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.

When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.

I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places.