Quotes About Doubt

36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

To do or not to do? To try or not to try? Most people will vote no, whether they consider themselves brave or not. Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty

In the end, a lack of focus is usually just fear: fear that whatever project I'm attempting will go nowhere or fail miserably.

I'm very much in favor of learning. I'm much more skeptical of credentialing or the abstraction called 'education.

El perfeccionismo genera indecisión, lo cual conduce a la parálisis.

What do people agree merely by convention, and what is the truth?' There's a consensus of things that people believe to be true. Maybe the conventions are right, and maybe they're not. And we never want to let a convention be a shortcut for truth. We always need to ask: Is this true? And this is always what I get at with this indirect question: 'Tell me something that's true that very few people agree with you on.

Todo lo comúnmente aceptado como cierto es falso.» OSCAR WILDE, La importancia de llamarse Ernesto

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."—Bertrand Russell

Because of the coexistence of sin and grace, we all shift between denying and affirming our humanity.

Has the other person ever doubted your commitment?

The final mode is misplaced faith.

the problem with accepting things that are contradictory as possibly right is that you cannot possibly be thinking yourself when you do it.

Uncertainty can be the most difficult and frightening of mental states. If you're always wondering which way to go, you might freeze up and not go anywhere. If you're afraid you can't do something, you might not even try.

I am always afraid of your something shall be done.

E poi, meglio non scrivere e passare per finto che scrivere e togliere ogni dubbio.

Kierkegaard: «Ci sono due modi di farsi ingannare: uno è credere in qualcosa che non è vero; l'altro è non credere in qualcosa che è vero». Poi

The reason we get angry when someone makes fun of you is cause you doubt your ability.

Openly share and talk to people about your idea. Use their lack of interest or doubt to fuel your motivation to make it happen.

Todavía no sabía lo que era el amor ni si estaba enamorado de ella, pero cada vez que pensaba en ella sentía algo que no sentía salvo cuando lo sentía... No sabía por qué, ni qué significaba todo eso, ni qué debía hacer al respecto. Pero tratar de no sentirlo, tratar de que desapareciera, ahora le parecía algo profundamente equivocado.

Doubt can lead you where certainty never will.

ghost44: Guess you don't think I'm Jessica Keen anymore. johnnyrotten: No. Definitely not. ghost44: What makes you so sure? johnnyrotten: Because the only time I don't get that empty feeling is when I'm messaging you.

But then again, impossible never became rumour, did it?

The reason we get angry when someone makes fun of you is cause you doubt your ability to do something