Quotes About Doubt

If you fill your mind with fear, doubt and unbelief in your ability to connect with and use the forces of Infinite Intelligence, the law of autosuggestion will take this spirit of unbelief and use it as a pattern by which your subconscious mind will translate it into its physical equivalent.

That depends entirely upon the nature and extent of one's desires, and the control one exercises over his mind in keeping it free from fear and doubt and self-imposed limitations. This sort of control comes through constant vigilance, wherein one keeps his mind free of all negative thoughts and leaves it open for the influx and the guidance of Infinite Intelligence.

This is because "indecision crystallizes into DOUBT" and "the two blend and become FEAR!"58 Decisiveness, in contrast, boosts our self-confidence and elevates our mind to a higher plane of functioning, whereby our thoughts are more apt to attract inspiration and opportunity.

decisions is the seedling of fear! Remember this, as you read. Indecision crystalizes into doubt, the two blend and become fear! The "blending" process often is slow. This is one reason why these three enemies are so dangerous. They germinate and grow without their presence being observed.

your greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence.

Where there is fear, worry, anxiety, doubt, trouble, chagrin, or disappointment, there is ignorance and lack of faith.

To fear or to worry is as sinful as to curse, for how can one fear or worry if he intrinsically believes in the Eternal justice, the Omnipotent Good, the Boundless Love? To fear, to worry, to doubt, is to deny, to dis-believe.

La indecisión se cristaliza en la duda, ¡los dos se mezclan y se convierten en miedo!

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he tends to mistake the unknown for the nonexistent.

Sometimes people ask you a question with their eyes begging you to not tell them the truth.

The person you are the most afraid to contradict is yourself.

Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.

A half-man (or, rather, half-person) is not someone who does not have an opinion, just someone who does not take risks for it.

We can get closer to the truth by negative instances, not by verification! It

An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.

The Pyrrhonian skeptics were docile citizens who followed customs and traditions whenever possible, but taught themselves to systematically doubt everything, and thus attain a level of serenity. But while conservative in their habits, they were rabid in their fight against dogma.

Yet they believe blindly in the stock market, and in the abilities of their pension plan manager. Why do they do so? Because they accept that this is what people should do with their savings, because experts tell them so. The doubt their own sense, but not for a second do they doubt their automatic purchases in the stock market.

probability is principally a branch of applied skepticism

For an idea to have survived so long across so many cycles is indicative of its relative fitness. Noise, at least some noise, was filtered out. Mathematically, progress means that some new information is better than past information, not that the average of new information will supplant past information, which means that it is optimal for someone, when in doubt, to systematically reject the new idea, information, or method. Clearly and shockingly, always. Why?

There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell them. As the great philosopher of uncertainty Yogi berra once said, Don't waste your time trying to fight forecasters, stock analysts, economists and social scientists, except to play pranks on them.

what Mother Nature does is rigorous until proven otherwise; what humans and science do is flawed until proven otherwise.

In this world, you should always be suspicious of the knowledge you derive from data.

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