Quotes About Doubt

I tell my mother I went to God in spite of my religious education. I feel that my religious education was inadequate, but that doesn't mean that Judaism was inadequate.

When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, "Then there's no hope for me, Mum."

My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.

My mother started taking us to church when I was in seventh or eight grade. That was always a question, Do you believe in God?

Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.

Which means she to deceive, father or mother?

A thought that sometimes makes me hazy: Am I - or are the others crazy?

Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Only the insecure strive for security.

Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

People have always doubted whether I was good enough to play this game at this level. I thought I was, and I thought I could be. What other people thought was really always irrelevant to me.

Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

It's not about winning or losing a competition, it's about beating the doubt from within yourself and knowing at the end of each day you are one step closer to your goals.

If you're not having doubt, you're not pushing the boundaries far enough.

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.

Having a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you.

Feed your fears and your faith will starve. Feed your faith, and your fears will.

It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.

If I walked on water, my accusers would say it is because I can't swim.

There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

Every one starts out being an atheist.

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.