Quotes About Uncertainty And Doubt

#1. I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.

Carl Andre

#2. Freely available, hardcore 21st-century pornography blasts through men's and women's sexual imaginations like antibiotics and kills all mystery, uncertainty, and doubt - good and bad.

Caitlin Moran

#3. A coward worships the limits of impossibilities, obeys the rule of uncertainty, respects the forces of doubt, and magnifies the fear of failure.

Olarewaju Oladipo

#4. Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

Brene Brown

#5. Shall I tell you plainly one thing, sir? I dread almost as much to receive any tidings of my vessel as to remain in doubt. Uncertainty is still hope.

Alexandre Dumas

#6. I am living proof that uncertainty is vastly underrated and often times a blessing in disguise.

Tony Shalhoub

#7. The most self-damaging words in the English language are: try, might, and if. These are words of uncertainty. Will you fail? That is possible. But continue doubting your abilities and you'll never succeed.

Dannika Dark

#8. An understanding that brought me uncertainty. A knowledge that plagued me with doubt

Me

#9. Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.

Criss Jami

#10. All belief is fervent hope, and thus a cover-up for doubt and uncertainty - religions

Alan W. Watts

#11. The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt.

Carlo Rovelli

#12. But doubt is a crucial to faith as darkness is to light. Without one, the other has no context and is meaningless. Faith is, by definition, uncertainty. It is full of doubt, steeped in risk. It is about matters not of the known, but of the unknown.

Carter Heyward

#13. We spend so much time defending our choice to do this that it becomes hard to show any vulnerability at all. There's only so many times you can handle someone asking about your fall back for when things don't work before you start thinking that maybe the fall back should just be your plan.

Cora Carmack

#14. The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks. (65)

Stephen Batchelor

#15. Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself.

Madeleine L'Engle

#16. The whole [of religion] is a riddle, an aenigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the onlyresult of our most accurate scrutiny, concerning this subject.

David Hume

#17. The inspiration and authority of the Bible is the bedrock upon which our faith is built. Without it, we are doomed to uncertainty, doubt, and a hopeless groping in the darkness of human speculation.

Sam Storms

#18. Through the doors of perception, down the corridors of uncertainty, and into the room of self doubt, opens the window of opportunity.

David Parker

#19. We need to practice acting in spite of fear, in spite of doubt, in spite of worry, in spite of uncertainty, in spite of inconvenience, in spite of discomfort, and even to practice acting when we're not in the mood to act.

T. Harv Eker

#20. In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

Marsilio Ficino

#21. When our internal reference point is the ego or self-image, we feel cut off from our source, and the uncertainty of events creates fear and doubt.

Deepak Chopra

#22. Regardless of your faith, you can never escape uncertainty.

Shannon L. Alder

#23. We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

Douglas Adams

#24. There is stability in walking an uncertain path, because you never allow yourself to be misled by what you think you know.

A.J. Darkholme

#25. When in doubt, be ridiculous.

Sherwood Smith

#26. Questioning anything within doubt,
will just bring mind to no certainty.

Toba Beta

#27. Being a scientist requires having faith in uncertainty, finding pleasure in mystery, and learning to cultivate doubt. There is no surer way to screw up an experiment than to be certain of its outcome.

Stuart Firestein

#28. You're sure this is what you want?" I search her eyes for doubt, fear, uncertainty, but all I see is that fire. Ten hells
"I'm sure"
"Then I'll find a way

Sabaa Tahir

#29. To try is to accept the possibility of failure. Simply do.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#30. The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without.

Eric Hoffer

#31. I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

Jose Saramago

#32. A 20/20 mindset eradicates any source of fear, doubt, and uncertainty. It produces a balanced life in which you are living your purpose and being fueled with your passion. You are connected directly to the source of greatness. Success is then a graceful gift.

Farshad Asl

#33. To try is to invite uncertainty. Where confidence goes, success usually follows.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#34. Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself.

Miguel De Unamuno

#35. Enthusiasm reaches out with joy, for there is nothing depressing about it; it reaches out in faith, for there is no fear in it; it reaches out with acceptance, for there is no doubt in it; it reaches out as a child for there is no uncertainty about it.

Ernest Holmes

#36. Don't dig up in doubt what you planted in faith.

Elisabeth Elliot

#37. I would not have described myself as a committed atheist for whom all spirituality was nonsense, but as an agnostic in whom large areas of doubt and uncertainty resided.

Jennifer Worth

#38. We don't have time for such uncertainty because it reliably breeds indecision, and indecision is one of the mothers of failure.

Dean Koontz

#39. In times of uncertainty, wait. Always, if you have any doubt, wait. Do not force yourself to any action. If you have a restraint in your spirit, wait until all is clear, and do not go against it.

Lettie Cowman

#40. Was I a fool to believe in fate or in some destined illusionary path? I don't know. But we all need something to believe in.

John-Talmage Mathis