#doubt

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise! ↗

— Alexander Pope

#doubt #how #prone #wise

Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#knowledge #madness #doubt

Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising I came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall! ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#doubt

When you don't know where to start, just go to a place you miss so much. ↗

— Toba Beta

#doubt #missed #confusion

A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading. ↗

— Leszek Kołakowski

#doubt #irony #modernity #philosophy #self-criticism

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

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

I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself. ↗

— Shania Twain

#discouraging #doubted #had #i #in the past