Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes

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

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

The thing I believe in most in the world is my own fallibility, so I am willing to believe that I may be wrong too.

It's not like I have all the answers.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

I don't know if I'm so righteous.

I doubt about myself. I think doubts are good in life. The people who don't have doubts I think only two things-arrogance or not intelligence.

Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly.

The fruitfulness of our lives depends in large measure in our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own work. The man who completely trusts his own estimate of himself is doomed to sterility.

Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble. So those on scepticism cause believers to affirm. Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, few doubtingly of scepticism.

I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big, important work.'

I don't think I'm successful.

As a person... I'm a little more doubtful, introspective and analytical.

Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.

I'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about.

I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, 'Does this suck?' and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, 'I'm on fire, I'm amazing!' and I don't think that's the way to work.

I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.

If I were to say at any point that I feel really confident or really in control, that would be a mistake. Because I don't. I always see where I didn't do things the right way.

I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything.

If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.

Who knows most, doubts most.

There is a cleansing humility about doubt.