Paulo Coelho Quotes

I have never been 100% confident that I am right about anything.

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.

I should have the courage of my lack of convictions.

I did not succeed in everything I did. And even where it did seem I was succeeding it was not always the case. The human heart has a million facets.

Blessed are those who are not afraid to admit that they don't know something

A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.

Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.

I think that there's some confusion in my own mind about what I believe.

I know that's a little jarring, coming from a Weatherman, but what I mean by being humble is doubting if your action did anything. So you have to open your eyes, act and doubt. And then you have to repeat for a lifetime.

The journey towards the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Don't fool yourself: the moment will come where what seemed to be close to you is in fact still very far away.

Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North

The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.

And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following Your Will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please You does in fact please You. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.

The only thing about myself I know for sure is that I don't know anything.

Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.

Malander had an idea and was trying to work it out, but it would take him time. Sometimes people never saw things clearly until it was too late and they no longer had the strength to start again. Or else they forgot their idea along the way and didn't even realise that they forgotten.

In our world no one ever knows what to do, and everyone's just as clueless and full of crap as everyone else, and you have to figure it all out by yourself. And even after you've figured it out and done it, you'll never know whether you were right or wrong. You'll never know if you put the ring in the right volcano, or if things might have gone better if you hadn't.

I don't know if I'm really the fastest. It doesn't matter.

I very rarely made any move to direct anything. I didn't have any faith in myself.

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

The worst thing is not being wrong, but being sure one is not wrong.

If you have any question in your mind, don't do it. If you go in thinking it's going to fix something that's wrong, don't do it.

Wisest is she who knows she does not know.

I've never regretted saying no to anything, or finishing something. When I'm in the middle of doing something I love, I can have a better idea, and I'll go, "Oh God, I can't finish this." Maybe I've got some sort of disorder.