Quotes About Doubt

This is similar, perhaps, to the tone in which I say, "Oh, they serve small plates, right?" when someone suggests eating at a tapas restaurant.) Beginning

You think I look like a teletubby?

In the Affairs of this World Men are saved, not by Faith, but by the Lack of it.

The former says he waits for me ahead, but I doubt I'll arrive in time . . .

Franklin was a thin, pink person who was either a genius or, well, not one. Chances weren't.

James shows his feelings so liberally that they come at a discount, and their value diminishes. When he says he loves me, usually in a threatening way, the statement always seems to beg for reciprocation. I guess he cries wolf. More or less sobs it. One could argue that everything James says is merely the word "wolf" in one language or another.

but even there confidence was waning, notably overseas.

Weeks passed with no word, and I became convinced that I would be staying at the CEA.

They were skeptical of my youth and inexperience, probably rightly so.

Part of this game is confidence, and looking clueless and uncertain doesn't help.

But that outcome looked more and more unlikely.

As the panic worsened,

I was also dismayed that some people who had known or worked with me—like Reinhart, Posen, and Goodfriend—seemed disinclined to give us the benefit of the doubt.

he was voting yes "with some reluctance.

Not that these folks necessarily took what we told them at face value.

Still, over time, optimism about resolving Europe's problems faded.

I was skeptical about giving someone such an important job based on recommendations rather than on qualifications and a record of sustained accomplishment.

But there can be little doubt he identified and spoke to a deep sense of popular dissatisfaction.

Dudley was initially skeptical.

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot.

There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!

Regardless of how you came to doubt, doubt itself is not the problem, but what can be problematic and even tragic is what you do with your doubt.

When it comes to doubt, there is not one size that fits all. Some people struggle with it and some people don't. Some people scream their way into doubt through pain and suffering, while others seem to drift into doubt. It's that simple and that complex.

Doubting is not unique to a person or a time period. It is the nature of being a finite human living in a complex world filled with pain and disappointment and questions about existence that will never be answered.