Doubts Quotes

The word maybe was beginning to annoy me, because the only thing that was fixed was that maybe would be with me forever.

Go idea machine on your doubts.

Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable ... we must be content to creep along the ground and can never soar.

Nothing perhaps is strange once you have accepted life itself the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.

Our lives are never certain even for an hour.

Throughout this life you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.

Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing.

The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.

We are not certain we are never certain.

We live in an epoch in which the solid ground of our preconceived ideas shakes daily under our certain feet.

All business proceeds on beliefs or judgment of probabilities and not on certainties.

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides never decides.

Ah what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!

To be absolutely certain about something one must know everything or nothing about it.

Something must be left to chance nothing is sure in a sea fight.

There is nothing certain about war except that one side won't win.

There is only one thing about which I am certain and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

I'm often wrong but never in doubt.

There is one thing certain namely that we can have nothing certain therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain.

Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

The demand is for certainty is a sign of weakness.

Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers.

When nothing is sure everything is possible.

He who forecasts all perils will never sail the sea.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of shore for a very long time.

If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties it may be too late.

The successful man is he who when he sees that no further certainty is attainable promptly decides on the most probable side as if he were completely sure it was right.

There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.

I am a woman who understands the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin still lie beyond me.

To end with certainty we must begin with doubting.

Gardening is an exercise in optimism.

In the face of uncertainty there is nothing wrong with hope.

Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it you can make it so.

I said here's the river I want to flow on here's the direction I want to go and put my boat in. I was ready for the river to take unexpected turns and present obstacles.

Every time I think that I'm getting old and gradually going to the grave something else happens.

I think I look good out there. I'm strong powerful and artistic. But I have my doubts as much as anyone.

To Death I yield but not to Doubt who slays before!

Soon after a heart-wrung decision something inevitably occurs to cast doubt on your choice. Holding steady against that doubt usually proves your decision.

Doubt breeds doubt.

It's the moment you think you can't that you realize you can.

From a shy timid girl I had become a woman of resolute character who could no longer be frightened by the struggle with troubles.

In doubt fear is the worst of prophets.

Faith and doubt both are needed not as antagonists but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

When in doubt do it.

Yes I have doubted. I have wandered off the path but I always return. It is intuitive an intrinsic built-in sense of direction. I seem always to find my way home.

Doubt whom you will but never yourself.