Quotes About Doubt

I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it.

I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.

One of the earliest resurrection scenes in the Bible is that of Thomas demanding evidence - he wanted to see, to touch, to prove. Those who question and probe and debate are heirs of the apostles just as much as the most fervent of believers.

Nobody really knows if there's a God - not Oprah, not Joel Osteen, not the Pope. Nobody has touched or felt or conversed with God. They say they have, but let's get real. I think that is what keeps me from coming out as an atheist. I think to myself, even the atheists don't know that there isn't a God. Nobody knows anything.

I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.

The Tour has changed, and I can't make up my mind if it's changed for the better or worse.

It's tough to think before a tournament that you can win.

Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, contend in majors, win majors. I thought they were crazy.

I mean what's the point of them becoming professional snooker players? If there's not much money in the game, if there's no guarantee of future tournaments, if no one knows what's going on.

I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

My position now, especially in this town, adds an element of skepticism with people you meet - especially girls. I mean, it becomes a lot more difficult.

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.

I know when I am on stage and I'm kind of on the right track - hopefully most of the time. But a lot of time I'm not.

I've been told a million things in this league. I was Rookie of the Year, and then got traded... So it's hard for me to sit back and believe everything I hear.

You're always going to feel disrespected because you're getting traded. Evidently, you ain't doing something right or you ain't getting it done or they don't believe in you.

I don't think it's natural for two people to swear to be together for the rest of their lives.

Why is it that the right people never wind up together? Why are people so afraid to leave a relationship, even if they know it's a bad one?

When a Man has Married a WifeHe finds out whetherHer Knees & elbows are onlyglued together.

Most writers are secretly worried that they're not really writers. That it's all been happenstance, something came together randomly, the letters came together, and they won't coalesce ever again.

Never trust anything you read in a travel article.

As it is, plain reasoning assures me I am not indispensable to the universe: but with this reasoning, somehow, does not travel my belief.

As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith

The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening