Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

I'm not so certain in life.

no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any

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

I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.

If I told people that I knew what I was doing, nobody would believe me, so why even try and fake it?

I do struggle with the fact that I don't have all the answers.

I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

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'm forever making it out like I have got it all together and I know what I'm doing. The truth is I haven't got a clue what I'm doing.

I think we all go through those moments of self-doubt.

I really think insecurity is something that comes with being an actor - I don't know actors who aren't insecure. I do think I kind of lie to myself - there is a percentage of ego involved. And I don't say that's a bad thing - it's good to know that it's there whether we like it or not. But ego is like a lion that we have to keep under control.

There wasn't a time where I felt fearful that I couldn't make the best decisions possible.

Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.

You're never totally sure. I shouldn't say that because you have to pretend you're completely self-secure all the time. But, the truth is, I know what I'm doing. I think I know what I'm doing.

Only the fools are certain and assured.

All belief is a cover-up for insecurity

Standing alone,eager to just believe,it's good enough to be what you really are,but in your heart,uncertainty forever lies,and you'll always be,somewhere on the outside.

I have no talent for certainty.

'I don't know' are three words I don't like saying.

When you're not playing, sometimes you're not full of confidence.

Personally, I've struggled with a lot of doubt in myself at times.

I doubted myself for a long time.

I've always been very insecure and had a lot of self-doubt growing up. That was partially because of how I was raised.

Everybody has their doubts in their 20s, but I've always loved sort of having a sense of direction.