Oscar Levant Quotes

I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways.

A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.

I'm a terrible vacillator; I can be sure of something one day and change my mind the next.

I had two thoughts about it. One was I could do that, and the next one was I'll never get to do that.

I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.

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

He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.

I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.

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

You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

I have reservations about everything I do.

Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times... you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else?

So basically, I don't know what I'm talking about. But maybe I do.

I used to be indecisive but now I am not quite sure.

I was disappointed a little in Stevenson because I did think he couldn't make up his mind. It's the feeling I always had. Perhaps all of us have self-doubt, and we should have, and most of us do, but it doesn't show. It doesn't show as much as it did in Adlai; he seemed to do it in public.

I normally don't listen to my instincts because I'm so full of doubt.

Would I change anything? I don't know, that's a double edge sword for me.

My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.

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.

If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them.

Faith embraces itself and the doubt about itself.

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

I know not what to do, my mind is divided

When in doubt, doubt the doubt!