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Quotes About Doubt

If anyone can show me ... that there is any reason - other than fear - to believe in any version of an afterlife, I'll give you my piano, one of my legs, and my wife.
~ Tim Minchin
Always question your fear, Anh. there's almost never a good reason to be scared.
~ Anh Do
The fear that the universe is not what you assume it to be is very basic, especially when you know damn well it isn't what you assume it to be.
~ John C. Lilly
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
~ Baruch Spinoza
My last fear, the fear of God, died with my faith.
~ G. Gordon Liddy
There can be no security where there is fear.
~ Felix Frankfurter
The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
There is no illusion great than fear.
~ Laozi
The scientist believes in proof without certainty.
~ Ashley Montagu
As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.
~ Julius Caesar
I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
~ Abraham Lincoln
If you turned the fabric of our lives over, I imagined the design on the backside would be woven in the bleak grays of doubt and fear.
~ Stephenie Meyer
Don't let your fear grow bigger than your faith.
~ Josie Bissett
Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.
~ Haruki Murakami
Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.
~ Philip K. Dick, Valis
When fear knocks, to let faith answer the door.
~ Robin Roberts
Overconfidence comes from fear and doubt, and you boast an ego when you're feeling less than.
~ Nikki Sixx
When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the Commander to conceal his: above all to conceal doubt, fear, and distrust.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.
~ Publilius Syrus
Being faithful doesn't mean you are fearless. It just means that your faith is greater than your fear.
~ Christine Caine
To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.
~ Katherine Mansfield
I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.
~ Jerzy Kosi?ski
The black­est des­pair that can take hold of any soci­ety is the fear that liv­ing hon­estly is futile.
~ Unknown
What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?
~ Toni Morrison