Quotes About Doubt

Others besides practicing artists have imaginations. But most people are afraid to trust their imaginations and the artist is not.

She is always pretending she loves me, but look at her now. Am I in her thoughts? Is there a tender look in her eyes? Is she dreaming of me as she walks along the streets?

It's no use. I find it impossible to work with security staring me in the face.

The devil—one might face anything if one but knew what was to be faced! ~117, SA: Sh. Stories, 1962

It is no use. I find it impossible to work with security staring me in the face.

We're so deeply conditioned to believe that there's a right or wrong choice that when it comes time to make even minor decisions in life, we're scared of messing up.

Whether it's a major decision like accepting a job, or a minor decision like what to order at a restaurant, people struggling with anxiety often find themselves frozen like a deer in the headlights when it comes time to decide.

Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.

Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?

We need proof in our society.

That's what I thought at the time. On second thought, perhaps I didn't really think at all.

There are only two people in the world I trust: you and me—and I'm not so sure about you.

The practice of Zen mind is beginner's mind. The innocence of the first inquiry—what am I?—is needed throughout Zen practice. The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities. It is the kind of mind which can see things as they are, which step by step and in a flash can realize the original nature of everything.

Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes

Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.

It's a good thing when you don't dare do something if you don't think it's right. But it's not good when you think something's not right because you don't dare do it.

Help me, Gunnulf," begged Kristin. She was white to the very edge of her lips. "I don't know my own will." "Then say: Thy will be done," replied the priest softly.

Later in my life I would come to understand that history books are the least reliable witnesses

You will find that the dullest, most functionally illiterate mental mushroom has a very definite, very "scientific" view on one thing: the impossibility of any kind of psychic phenomena.

The melancholy comes over me, the dismal misery of not knowing where I am, or perhaps losing any sense of who I am, as if the mist is bringing about an evaporation of identity, all the certainties of the self leaching away into the cloud.

Nigdy nie w?tp w cz?eka prawego i szlachetnego. Taki zawsze co? spieprzy. Oczywi?cie wszystko w imi? wi?kszego dobra.

The mid-century Conservative Party in England had arrived at a universal font truth: we tend to treat the traditional and familiar as trustworthy. We are dubious of fonts that alert us to their difference, or fonts that seem to be trying too hard. We don't like being consciously sold things, or paying for fancy design we don't need.

He hadn't played, so if there really was some kind of mystical knowledge you gained from playing, he wouldn't know. Usually he would back down.

It's only a short step from a burning bush to a burning heretic, after all. I try not to bother God, and hope He'll do me the same courtesy.