Quotes About Doubt

Doubt, fear, and hesitation are enemies of the mind, for a weak will severs our inborn connection with the universe, dampens the faith with which we are able to join our will to it.

Everybody faces a blank piece of paper, no matter what they've written or painted or composed before. I can't imagine approaching every single new project without doubt.

I know what my decision is...Which is not to decide.

What if I'm not a superhero. What if I'm the bad guy?

The true work of love resides in sticking with the process, especially in those moments, and eras, when desire is forced to coexist with doubt.

I'm going to get hammered away for asking these questions. Fine. Hammer away. But don't pretend that's the same as answering.

Vonnegut had seen the worst of human conduct and refused to lie about the sort of trouble we were in, but who had not allowed his doubt to curdle into cynicism, who, for all his dark prognostication, was a figure of tremendous hope. The evidence was in his books, which performed the greatest feat of alchemy known to man: the conversion of grief into laughter by means of courageous imagination. Like any decent parent, he had made the astonishing sorrow of the examined life bearable.

God was, to me, a lovely dream, a brave make-believe daddy who provided comforting answers to those who couldn't bear the prevailing evidence.

Vaddern was trying hard to be the guy on the white horse, but I was'nt ready, just yet, to play the trust game

But Sometimes Ask

Belief is at best an educated, informed conjecture about Reality.

number one cause of failure in this country is the fear of failure. Fear paralyzes you from taking action.

the number one cause of failure in this country is the fear of failure. Fear

Doubt, Master Liu always said, is death.

GAHAN: 'I don't think I should say "Hello, Pasadena", I think I should say, "Hello, the Rose Bowl" ... I don't know.' FRANKS: 'Why don't you say "Good Evening, Welcome To The Concert For The Masses"?' GAHAN: 'I'm not fucking Wordsworth, you know.

He had never found a companion he could consider his equal, and if he ever did, well, how would he be able to trust someone that adept? An interesting conundrum.

There may be strength in numbers, but not necessarily truth.

Their eyes met again, and this time there were no great answers there, only questions that would never be satisfied. A

It is always man's ideas which drive his actions. This has, at times, resulted in great evil; but as we look around us, we cannot doubt that it has resulted in greater good.

Let him who doubts the victory wrest the banner from my hand.

doubt is less easily dispelled than illusion, and with doubt come tentative half-measures—and nothing worthwhile has ever been accomplished by tentative half-measures.

I have strong opinions about ambivalence.

Even though they knew intellectually that they had not been guilty of sabotaging the relationship, each woman couldn't help but look for a rational explanation and wonder whether it was something she did—or neglected to do—that set the man off. But in most cases, nothing went wrong in the relationship. In fact, part of the problem is that he backs off when things are going too well. You see, the only thing wrong is that this man simply cannot make a commitment.

Someone coughed nearby, from some huddle of stones, and then spoke. 'So, who are we fighting for again?' Fiddler could not place the voice. Nor the one that replied, 'Everyone.' A long pause, and then, 'No wonder we're losing.