#doubt

But then self-doubt has always been there for Billy, self-doubt and its cousin the berating voice, these faithful companions have always been on call to help him through the critical junctures of his life. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#self-doubt #faith

Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#faith #trust #faith

The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others' appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#others #self-doubt #uncertainty #value #self-determination

Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge. ↗

— Marc Bloch

#historiography #history #knowledge #nature

But the new generation had tasted the wine of philosophy; and from this time onward the rich youth of Rome went eagerly to Athens and Rhodes to exchange their oldest faith for the newest doubts. ↗

— Will Durant

#faith #philosophy #rome #faith

When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#bar #burden #cannot #doubts #far

I do not preach doubtingly, for I do not live doubtingly. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#faith #religion #spurgeon #faith

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#faith #religion #faith

I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#because #bite #doubted #dust #eventually

I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress. ↗

— Ann Bancroft

#could #doubts #go #had #i