Quotes About Doubt

If you don't believe in yourself, somewhere or another, you sabotage yourself.

I was raised Catholic, and then I kind of wandered away somewhere in high-school. I never got confirmed, which is a big deal.

We haven't done such a great job, so I don't know why God couldn't have started over somewhere else. I don't necessarily believe in aliens coming to the States, and I don't buy into the government cover-up.

I think about death all the time. I know there's nothing out there, but I'm curious. There's a 300 billion-to-one chance that there might be an energy that goes somewhere else, but I doubt it.

I still don't know if I can write songs. I don't think anyone ever knows if they can write songs.

There's this existential argument that comes in, at some point, when you're over-thinking the songwriting process. There's no guarantee that the more time you spend or the more you concentrate on certain aspects that that's going to produce a better result, especially in the arts.

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

Sometimes I think, 'I need to get married soon.' Other days I think, 'Why get married?'

There's always an attack on the sophomore novel from some quarters.

Soft Sounds' was really hard for me. I was petrified of the 'sophomore slump' so I created an environment to best combat that self-doubt and feelings that my first album was a real fluke.

I'm sorry, I'm absolutely convinced that there is at the moment no realistic prospect for very much hope in human affairs.

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.

I find performing very difficult. It's difficult to be a good actor. I get very nervous, even though it sounds disingenuous, because you could legitimately go, 'Well, why do it?'

I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.

And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations.

Protests are fine. But in South Carolina we believe in the rule of law, and the people of this state should never doubt that as governor, I will enforce it.

It's funny because 'The Book of Mormon' is 'The Book of Mormon' now. When I was doing it at the very beginning, and I was a part of it for four years and always believed in it, I never really knew if it was going to be more than a convention for 'South Park' fans.

I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough.

I didn't believe that the Soviet Union would ever break down.

The whole sector of public dialogue has been totally contaminated, deliberately, by the corporate sector. The whole purpose is to sow confusion and doubt, and it's worked.

When it comes to sowing doubt about democracy and fueling dissension among Americans, Mr. Putin is eating our lunch.

You think you can drive accurately in confined spaces until someone puts something like a shipping container in the way and you suddenly think: 'I'm going to hit that.'

In Barcelona, Bayern Munich, in Spain and Germany we were able to do it. But people say, 'You only did it because you were in Barcelona and Bayern Munich. You will not be able to do it in England.' So, let's do it. We are going to try.