Quotes About Doubt

I was twenty now, and had given up all hope of being a singer or ever getting out of Aston. PA system or no PA system, it wasn't going to happen. I'd convinced myself that there was no point in even trying, because I was just going to fail, like I had at school, at work, and at everything else I'd ever tried. 'You ain't no good as a singer,' I told myself. 'You can't even play an instrument, so what hope d'you have?'

Snart finns ej längre land, ej stad, där du trygg är, och ingen frågar vad det innebär.

Mármost ha az a helyzet, hogy mindenki tök, csak mi állunk a vártán ragyogón, okosan, mint a nap, akkor azért érdemes gyanút fogni.

The public very properly shun all whose integrity is doubted. No matter how polite and pleasant and accommodating a man may be, none of us dare to deal with him if we suspect "false weights and measures.

la creencia de que se vive en la posesión de un librito que solo conoce de la verdad. Hombres peligrosos los del cavernario fanatismo, que no creen en el valor de la duda, en las virtudes del desconcierto, en la pesadumbre del error propio repetido.

Después de los cuarenta empezaba a desconfiar de la memoria, hasta de la mejor memoria, la de las buenas intenciones.

human life doesn't have truth. We're born screaming in doubt, and we die suffocating in doubt, and human life consists of continually convincing ourselves we're alive. One of the ways we know we're alive is we love each other...

I don't know. Sometimes, I look at Helen. And she's a nice girl and all that. She's pretty. But I feel I'm missing something. I look at Helen, I say: "I must have felt something special to marry this girl.

just because a point is well made, doesn't mean it's right.

Nothing could be more vital than to be suspicious of the voice in my head.

If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance." —ORVILLE WRIGHT, AMERICAN INVENTOR

Alguien que no me abandonará?, pienso para mis adentros y deseo volver a ser joven, porque entonces tal vez lo hubiera creído.

My feeling says there is history here. But sometimes a thing might feel true to me, not because it is, but because the writer believes it is.

It was actually in the Atlantic West that we first witnessed the paradox of religious fundamentalism: that it reflects the weakening of religious conviction.

Long into my career I harbored a secret sense that thinking and reading and writing, as much as I loved them, did not qualify as "real work.

The deeper our faith, the more doubt we must endure; the deeper our hope, the more prone we are to despair; the deeper our love, the more pain its loss will bring: these are a few of the paradoxes we must hold as human beings.

What happened to "we have nothing to fear but fear itself"?

By surviving passages of doubt and depression on the vocational journey, I have become clear about at least one thing: self-care is never a selfish act-it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.

I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.

I don't think it's possible to c-call yourself a C-Christian and... and j-just leave out the awkward bits.' -Wilfred Owen

You think that you can walk on water Better be careful, it gets mighty deep

As Seth Godin says, "Anxiety is nothing but repeatedly re-experiencing failure in advance.

In the real world, the Sergeant was tired of worrying and sick of cocoa. He was disturbed by feelings in his mind that he was not really himself at all. Several times he half-started out of his chair on an impulse to get out on the streets to ask the first person he met: "Where were you at ten past three on the morning of December the thirteenth, nineteen fifty-four"; just to prove to himself that he was still the Sergeant and that he knew how to do his duty.

The devout belief that the world is explainable is both a terrible vulnerability and a stout shield. Evil prefers it when people don't believe.