#doubts

I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#doubts #monsters #experience

But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest animal, be trusted when it draws such grand conclusions? ↗

— Charles Darwin

#darwinism #evolution #human-mind #macro-evolution #macroevolution

Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#doubting #doubts #effort #efforts #mankind

Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#critics #doubts #work

Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper they are earthbound. ↗

— William Goldman

#doubts #self-doubt #writing #doubt

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 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

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. ↗

— Ethel Barrymore

#difficulties #discouragements #doubts #failures #false

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#calamity #comes #death #doubts #feared

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else. ↗

— Bono

#allowed #anywhere #because #commitment #concern