Quotes About Doubt

If you don't have religious fallibilism, you have immense problems.

I'm not immune to being daunted.

There are people who are explicit and people who are implicit, right? Like I say, 'I think there is a God,' but I've seen Christian metalcore bands do altar calls at their shows and be like, 'Come get saved right now.' I think there's a subtler way, which is to say I'm being honest with my beliefs.

The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened.

It is certain because it is impossible.

I don't want to give a false impression of confidence where I don't have it.

There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.

In the beginning, many composers didn't have confidence in me. It's not their fault. It only comes after you've delivered your first hit.

You know, 'Peepshow,' in retrospect that seems like a good fit for me, but in the beginning, I'm sure you remember, nobody was sure if the show was going to last. Everybody was like, 'What are you doing? You can't sing, and you can't dance. What are you doing in this show?'

In the beginning, I was actually embarrassed to admit that I wanted to be an actor.

The only challenge I faced in the beginning was that no one believed I could seriously see a film through.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

People are going to figure out that I don't know anything. I always thought I'd be discredited in the end.

You need fear and doubt to drive you on. Without it, you end up living in the past and being happy with what you have achieved.

There are a few very small incompatible changes - I really doubt most people will ever run into them.

I get increasingly respectful of people who have faith and increasingly creeped out by them.

Evolution is baseless and quite incredible.

I'm much more indecisive and a people-pleaser than someone who's willing to step into the firing line.

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

I do work a lot on arguing that things which people assume are always wrong are not necessarily so and, indeed, can often be right.

We believe, it seems, where we ought to reason. We reason where we ought to believe. We believe too blindly and not blindly enough. We reason too closely and not closely enough.

Asking "Why?" can work only where people feel free to speak their minds and the decision makers really listen. "Many employees who worked on the Fire Phone had serious doubts about it," concluded the journalist and author Brad Stone, who has written definitive histories of Amazon, "but no one, it seemed, had been brave or clever enough to take a stand and win an argument with their obstinate leader.

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

I might as well doubt of my own being, as of the being of those things I actually see and feel.