Quotes About Doubt

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly.

If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.

The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in the present.

There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future.

I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.

Whatever the future holds I'm not really sure.

Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

An exciting and inspiring future awaits you beyond the noise in your mind, beyond the guilt, doubt, fear, shame, insecurity and heaviness of the past you carry around.

There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.

A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation

There is a goal but no way; what we call the way is mere wavering.

My goal is to destroy Christianity.

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.

Anyone can believe when God is already moving. But real faith is when you step out when it seems that God is not moving.

We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'

Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?

It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator.

If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.

I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?

Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends.