Quotes About Doubt

What was so odd was that quite a lot of people, not just sheep but highly intelligent people, did apparently believe it. T. S. Eliot, for instance. Or Eddington—in fact, quite a few physicists, the very last people one would expect to be taken in by it. Philosophers, too. Was it possible—was there any chance—that there was more to it than I had thought? No, certainly not. Of course not! Still, it was odd. Damned odd.

A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's growl, he knows damn well it's a lion.

Between the probable and proved there yawns A gap. Afraid to jump, we stand absurd, Then see behind us sink the ground and, worse, Our very standpoint crumbling. Desperate dawns Our only hope: to leap into the Word That opens up the shuttered universe.

To believe with certainty, somebody said, one has to begin by doubting.

I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was?

But I still feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, 'alright sucker, now what?'

Every time you tell someone that you are going to fly and they talk about gravity, that is doubt.

Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.

If the time is available for a budget, I will no doubt make use of that time.

I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.

I'm a sucker for nice religious leaders. I fall for it every time.

I've never had a writer's block, but still I think: Is it going to happen this time? You never know what you're going to get; you just put your fingers on the keys and hope.

I'll never make it, it will never happen, because they're never going to hear me 'cause they're screaming all the time.

Clown' was written when I couldn't find anyone who believed in me as an artist. Maybe those labels will think twice next time a young songwriter comes along.

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

I believe with the best of who I am in God, but I sometimes think if anybody would watch me and [they] didn't believe a damn thing, they would have a very hard time deciding which of us is which.

"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?

And the voice grows stronger and stronger, and it's my voice this time and it's asking a question: How does she know?

Like most writers I spend a lot of my time sort of thinking, "It's such agony, I can't do it."

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.

I doubt that Fidel will ever come back to power. I think he is slowly going to the great beyond. Too slowly . . . he could have gone a long time ago.

By the time [John Adams] came to write his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States in 1787 he had as dark a view of the American character as that of any critic in our history.

Honestly, there was a time after I came out that I really did not think I would be working again.

I resisted being an actor for some time.