Quotes About Doubt

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Oh! Let us never, never doubt What nobody is sure about.

He should, as he list, be able to prove the moon is green cheese.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Remember, son, many a good story has been ruined by over-verification.

I sort of feel like Cindy Crawford's new husband on their wedding night. I know what's expected of me. I'm just not sure I've got the ability to make it interesting.

My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

On the outside one is a star. But in reality, one is completely alone, doubting everything. To experience this loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world.

I don't like my voice. I don't like the way I look. I don't like the way I move. I don't like the way I act. I mean, period. So, you know, I don't like myself.

Ownership is to fear (tener es temer)

I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.

To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor; to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach east by travelling west. There is no philosophy which will help a man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so, and thus attracting failure. No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

An agnostic found himself in trouble, and a friend suggested he pray. "How can I pray when I do not know whether or not there is a God?" he asked. "If you are lost in the forest," his friend replied, "you do not wait until you find someone before shouting for help."

She heard the snuffle of hypocrisy in her prayer. She had to cease to pray.

Ask in faith.

Courage is not afraid to weep, and she is not afraid to pray, even when she is not sure who she is praying to.

The really great visual experience today is to fly over a huge city and look down into the night. It's like a tremendous jubilant Christmas tree. You just feel life is worth living - when you come down you may have some doubts.

'For example' is not proof.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is.

What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.

I come from a State that raises corn and cotton and cock-leburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me.

I am going to give my psychoanalyst one more year, then I'm going to Lourdes.