Kathryn Schulz Quotes

Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours.

Only the fools are certain and assured.

I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

Faith is Doubt.

I wish I were as sure of anything as Charles (Krouthammer) is about everything.

Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one.

We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.

One percent doubt is zero percent faith.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It.

A lot of people had doubts. I tried to tell people I never had doubts.

I'm starting to mistrust my judgment.

Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.

Certitude is not the test of certainty.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Only conviction sells. Well, when we are insecure, we really don't have that 100 percent conviction. Once we have it, we can tide over everything.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.