I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don’t let these feelings stop them.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.
I keep going because I doubt myself. It drives me to be better. I’ve learned that the mastery of self-doubt is the key to success. It’s like being animated by the love of a woman – the need to be worthy of her.
Once I dreamed I was a butterfly, and now I no longer know whether I am Chuang Tzu, who dreamed I was a butterfly, or whether I am a butterfly dreaming that I am Chuang Tzu.
The support gets me to the gym but the doubt keeps me there.
Don’t let anyone tell you you can’t do something, because you can!
Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.
I’m an atheist. I’m not neutral about religion, I’m hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just a false one. And I mean not just organized religion, but religious belief itself.
I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions.
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
I appear as a skeptic, who believes that doubt is the great engine, the great fuel of all inquiry, all discovery and all innovation.
We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
The less you think, the more you believe.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt. Simply put – I think, therefore I am.
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;!