Quotes About Doubt

Logic and reason are deceptive. They can lead a person to lose his soul. —MANFORD TORONDO, speech on Salusa Secundus

The haughty do but build castle walls behind which they try to hide their doubts and fears. —Bene Gesserit Axiom

Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt.

Suspicions have a way of becoming "facts," even if they have no basis in truth. —PRINCESS IRULAN, The Book of Muad'Dib

Not strictly one of mine, but worth repeating! A very forceful old lady in these parts, when referring to the eight novels of the Angel Mountain Saga,was heard to say: You know them books by that fellow Brian John? If I was you I wouldn't believe a single word. Take it from me. It's lies -- all lies!

Jesus Christ- Is Not here right now, the man in black replied,and even if he were, he could not save you.

Levi, Maria called. Come back. We're not finished yet. He paused What, Maria? You asked me what I believe in? I believed in you. He nodded his head sadly. Yes, you did. And before you met me, you believed in nothing. But that's the thing with belief, Maria. It's easy to believe in something when it doesn't require anything from you. It's much harder, though, when the object of your belief requires something of you or asks for something you don't want to give. That's when real belief occurs.

Maybe God is nothing more than another villain—the biggest villain of them all. Maybe

we express a commitment to that which cannot be established by reason, or to that which can be established by reason but not for that reason.12

We must understand the essence of our faith to be something other than a list of opinions, propositions, or statements that our group holds but cannot prove. (p. 22)

The parasite of art, the virus of art, never ceases to gnaw awat at your brain, never ceases to torture you with the knowledge that whatever you're doing could be done more beautifully, more powerfully, more stirringly, more disturbingly, more deeply.

It's foolish to speak of your happiness before you're sure you have it.

It is not failure itself that holds people back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.

Get it 80 percent right and then correct it later. Run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes. Don't expect perfection the first time or even the first few times. Be prepared to fail over and over before you get it right. The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not a lack of ability and a lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger. The only way to overcome your fears is to do the thing you fear

The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not lack of ability and lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.

El ser humano tiende a estar plagado de dudas sobre sus propias habilidades y se enfrenta a toda clase de miedos que pueda imaginarse; en particular, a lo desconocido.

The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not lack of ability or opportunity, but fears of failure and rejection, and the doubts that they trigger.

Come from the heart, the true heart, not the head. When in doubt, choose the heart. This does not mean to deny your own experiences and that which you have empirically learned through the years. It means to trust your self to integrate intuition and experience. There is a balance, a harmony to be nurtured, between the head and the heart. When the intuition rings clear and true, loving impulses are favored.

He was trusted to the point of death by one hundred thousand fighting men, but he himself always had his lurking doubts.

Halleck wrathfully wrote to Sherman: "It seems but little better than murder to give important commands to such men as Banks, Butler, McClernand, Sigel and Lew Wallace, and yet it seems impossible to prevent it.

They followed her, walking supererogatively on tiptoe, as though afraid to awaken the saints in whom they had never believed.

You who are on the inside, don't condemn my lack of faith too quickly; you who are on the outside, don't be too quick to mock my overcredulity; you who are indifferent, don't be too quick to wax ironic about my perpetual hesitations.

Luck is a curious companion, it comes to those who believe they hold it, and is an elusive servant to those who doubt they possess it.

The time we are given for parenting is so short, passes so quickly and is jumbled up with so many other priorities and disruptions that, in the end, we come to doubt that we used it in the best interests of our children.