Quotes About Doubt

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

I start out by believing the worst

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

To Robert Fulton: What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you excuse me, I have no time to listen to such nonsense.

Writing can be very lonely. Who's going to read it, who cares about it?

Sounds pretty bad. Are you sure about this?" "Oh, I'm sure." "Well, I don't know what we can do to prepare, except say our prayers." "Good luck with that, Herb. God died in 1945.

What else could have happened? Car wouldn't start? House caught on fire? Escaped convict climbed through his bedroom window and tied him with duct tape? Poison eggnog? Or maybe I just didn't matter to him.

I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.

Lieutenant Colonel Jonas Anazagasty couldn't agree more. "Confidence," he says, "isn't the absence of doubt, it's the way you respond to doubt.

Furthermore, having lost faith in himself, he thought it his duty to undermine the nation's faith in itself.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool the truest heroism is to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.

It's frightening that there's no guarantee that I'll be loved.

You poor, deluded woman...do you believe there is any such thing as love.

Just as doubt, despair, and desensitization go together, so do faith, hope, and charity. The latter, however, must be carefully and constantly nurtured, whereas despair, like dandelions, needs so little encouragement to sprout and spread. Despair comes so naturally to the natural man!

When superior minds start stating the obvious," said Amistad, "I tend to start questioning the appellation 'superior'.

A feeling of loss of control over your own life and a nagging feeling of "What am I missing?

TOM … Go on, jump in there. (Prompts her.) Be brave. HELEN You're absolutely sure it's dead, right? Because if it's just holding its breath, then I'm … LaBute, Neil (2004-11-29). Fat Pig: A Play (p. 27). Faber & Faber. Kindle Edition.

What the fuck do I mean? I mean . . . (Beat.) Well, I, shit, I dunno! But you see what I'm getting at, don't you?

The cosmos offers no absolute confirmations

Then again, no matter what your point of view may be, you can always find someone with a Ph.D to support it.

Vanity often roots itself in insecurity

One cannot successfully face an enemy while one is questioning one's own worth, and presuming the enemy is worth more.

But she did not look the future in the face. She wanted to feel nothing, to think nothing; simply to believe that it was all silly invention on her part. Yet she could not. Not quite.