Ken Wilber Quotes

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.

What do I believe? I do not know; I do not know; I do not know.

We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.

Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused and hurt and hungry.

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

I am the skeptic of skeptics.

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

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

There is a cleansing humility about doubt.

Doubt is crucial, I think, in every character I have ever played.

I question everything I do.

Sometimes, I'm not sure why I wind up doing some of the things I do.

What the heck did people see in me?

Sometimes you have to blame yourself before you can blame others.

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.

You imagine that I look back on my life's work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a single concept of which I am convinced that it will stand firm, and I feel uncertain whether I am in general on the right track.

I'm not sure whether it is me changing my mind, or whether I lie a lot.

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.

What the hell am I doing here?

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

And so you see I have come to doubt -All that I once held as true ~ I stand alone without beliefs -The only truth I know is you

What are we doing here, that is the question.

Evil does not question itself. Only Hope questions itself.