Quotes About Doubt

I've never been an optimist.

I'm not optimistic.

I am pessimistically optimistic.

I wasn't sure music was an option for me.

The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.

I was really scared when I went to Oregon State. I wasn't sure I could play at the college level.

I've always broken out in hives when I go into any organized religious situation.

I highly doubt that many people are as organized as me.

I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.

One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere.

I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

I'm never happy with the work I put in. No. I need to be told by my director and people around me that it is fine. Otherwise, I'll even go, like, 'One more take.'

We go through our lives in a continual dance of being filled with something that needs an answer, and then going out and finding that answer... only to find out that our answer wasn't quite the answer.

I had never been so challenged in an airplane that I doubted the outcome.

It took a long while for me to even put out a record because there were so many options of how to do a song, and in some respects, I'm never totally happy with the outcome.

I basically never believed that I was a commercial actor. Just because of the outcome of many auditions over time. No one hired me.

That's the bulk of my lyrical output - being confused and trying to find answers to my confusion.

Now that he has disavowed as outright lies many of the stories he told himself, it's hard to know what to make of those who still insist that David Brock had it right the first time.

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts.

By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter.

I want, overall, to trust what I know is right. There have been many times when I haven't.

The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.