Quotes About Doubt

The commentaries usually mention nine kinds of internal formations: desire, hatred, pride, ignorance, stubborn views, attachment, doubt, jealousy, and selfishness. Among these, the fundamental internal formation is ignorance, the lack of clear seeing. Ignorance is the raw material out of which the other internal formations are made. Although there are nine internal formations, because "desire" is always listed first, it is often used to represent all the internal formations.

She was so confused. No, she wasn't.

Aber er hatte lange genug gelebt, um zu wissen, dass alle Zeichen trügen und dass wir in unsrer Eifersucht, trotz ihrer hundert Augen, oft noch mehr in die Irre gehen, als in der Blindheit unsres Vertrauens.

I fear those shadows most that start from my own feet.

Knowledge is the first obstacle of the mind that a meditator should be able to remove. We should not be too sure of anything.

I urge you to write this phrase down on a card and put it up on the wall of your room: "Are you sure of your perceptions?

I have a feeling he felt Jon Voight had run away with the film, which he didn't, though he was brilliant in it, in a much less easy part. I just don't know what had got into him, but something had.

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

'Take Shelter' is a tough movie because there's no humor in it, so there's really no way to judge how you're doing - whether people are still with you or not.

For me, when I was growing up I was told the police weren't on our side. From being stereotyped because we drive nice cars to being judged for the clothing we wear, I was told I would never be given the benefit of the doubt.

It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.

My problem with the Emergent Church is not the questions they are bringing up, but the answers they are giving. They are making Christianity milky. They are making it so you can no longer define anything. There is no sound judgment allowed.

Even if there is a God, how do you know that his moral judgments are the correct ones? Seems to me Abraham should have said, 'God, that's just not right.'

For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.

Every time you make a jump, whether it's from high school to college or college to the NBA, you're going to hear questions about your athletic ability.

I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while.

Just as much as you need the people who love you, you need the people who doubt you - to prove them wrong.

Just because something doesn't confirm your existing beliefs does not mean it's a hoax.

Do I trust myself? Sometimes I don't even know, but I can only just kind of throw my hat in the ring and hope for the best. Depending on how much I trust the other people is how much freedom I can allow myself to have on that particular set.

I am a man of faith and faith is not always supposed to happen and what you see, sometimes it's just walking that path.

One thing I've learned in my limited experience is you can justify anything intellectually. There are a million reasons to stay with someone, and a million reasons to end something - so you can really only trust your gut.

At first, I wasn't really keen on the idea of me being on stage having to sing in front of people.

I've been doing this career for a really long time, but there was not a lot of reason, at the time when I wrote 'Fight Song,' to believe that I should keep going.