J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Oh, I don't know, you know, don't you know?

Doubt is long-winded. Certainty is brief.

When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what

I'm not sure I necessarily have explicit messages.

It's a kind of limbo, knowing what you want but not being quite sure how to go about doing it.

That's the one thing I don't like hearing, when someone says, 'We'll see what happens, see what happens here, see what happens there.' Forget all of that.

Wow. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.

Oh, there's plenty of reasons. I just don't know which one.

No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.

Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied.

I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.

There is a line between a definite maybe and an indefinite yes.

There have been times when you doubt yourself. You don't know if you're working on the right things.

You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

To know much is often the cause of doubting more.

I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.

I do not know what to do, my mind's in two.

I have no talent for certainty.

It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.

Now I'm confused. Now I don't know what I want.

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

I've waffled before. I'll waffle again.

I can give you a definite perhaps.