Doubt Management Quotes

The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts.

You can’t force yourself to trust. So you put all your doubts in a little box and bury it deep and then try to forget where you buried it

And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.

Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.

It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent, and moderate our persuasions.

Fanaticism is ... overcompensation for doubt.

There was many who had some doubts over me regarding my position in this sport, but I've always believed in myself and that's the way it's always been.

Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

If thy faith have no doubts, thou has just cause to doubt thy faith; and if thy doubts have no hope, thou hast just reason to fear despair; when therefore thy doubts shall exercise thy faith, keep thy hopes firm to qualify thy doubts; so shall thy faith be secured from doubts; so shall thy doubts be preserved from despair.

The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.

I master my doubts now. I have fun with them, they're my travelling companions.

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.

Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show.

My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.