Quotes About Doubt

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

No one from the beginning of time has had security.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

I didn't want to pray to God 'cause I didn't want him to know where I was.

You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

"They say so" is half a lie.

To succeed is nothing-it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.

With most people, doubt about one thing is simply blind belief in another.

Skeptics are never deceived.

I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.

Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything.

Great intellects are skeptical.

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.

I don't believe in God. Just try getting a plumber on the weekend.

To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts.... I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.

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 traveling west. There is no philosophy which will help 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.

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

Suspicion is far more apt to be wrong than right; oftener unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

The less we know the more we suspect.

A timid question will always receive a confident answer.