Victor LaValle Quotes

It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it.

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

Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.

There are two kinds of doubt: one that fully lives into the questions, and one that uses the questions as weapons against fully living.

I am the skeptic of skeptics.

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.

We'd all like to be certain of what we know, but I think the most important question is to ask yourself do you really know what you know?

I question everything I do.

In philosophy you're never 100% sure. You're always undermining what you think you know. That's always been my philosophy and my intellectual ethos.

I'm always doubtful. Everything I do is always doubtful. When you're trying to differentiate, there's going to be this gut sense, is this right? If you're not having doubt, then you're not pushing it hard enough, or you're not looking at the details close enough. You need to be feeling that doubt every single day.

A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt.

Don't believe me, don't believe yourself, and don't believe anyone else.

The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.

Doubt is merely a thought. When experience proves it wrong, it will quickly go away.

Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers.

If you haven't doubted, you probably haven't thought very hard about what you believe.

Only the fools are certain and assured.

I have beliefs, of course, like everyone-but I don't always believe in them.

Suspicion is the beginning of wisdom, and of madness.

When in doubt, doubt the doubt!

Have faith in your faith-and doubt your doubts.

Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable.

if you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving.

Man, I'm sick of doubt.

Unless you have the courage to doubt you will never come to know the truth.