Doubters Quotes - Page 3

• I'm a great self-doubter. I constantly need to prove myself to myself. I've never run to heroin or alcohol to hide that. I always have to deal with it. Stage fright is always going to be there. I have nightmares about bad gigs.

  John Lydon

  Running, Self, Alcohol

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.

  Clarence Darrow

  Religious, Doubt, Atheism

  Clarence Darrow (1995). “Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays”

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• Community is and must be inclusive. The great enemy of community is exclusivity. Groups that exclude others because they are poor or doubters or divorced or sinners or of some different race or nationality are not communities; they are cliques--actually defensive bastions against community.

  M. Scott Peck

  Race, Community, Enemy

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• Far or forgot to me is near;
  Shadow and sunlight are the same;
  The vanished gods to me appear;
  And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out;
  When me they fly, I am the wings;
  I am the doubter and the doubt,
  And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Death, Wings, Hymns

  'Brahma' (1867)

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• The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Art, Strong, Fighting

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

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• We've become a nation of indoor cats, he'd said. A nation of doubters, worriers, overthinkers. Thank God these weren't the kind of Americans who settled this country. They were a different breed! They crossed the country in wagons with wooden wheels! People croaked along the way, and they barely stopped. Back then, you buried your dead and kept moving.

  Dave Eggers

  Country, Moving, Cat

  Dave Eggers (2012). “A Hologram for the King”, p.13, McSweeney's

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• What has happened to create this doubt is that a problem (such as a deep conflict or a bad experience) has been allowed to usurp God's place and become the controlling principle of life. Instead of viewing the problem from the vantage point of faith, the doubter views faith from the vantage point of the problem. Instead of faith sizing up the problem, the situation ends with the problem scaling down faith. The world of faith is upside down, and in the topsy-turvy reality of doubt, a problem has become god and God has become a problem.

  Os Guinness

  Reality, Views, Doubt

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• With such a deep rooted interest you can withstand the setbacks and failures, the days of drudgery, and the hard work that are always a part of any creative action. You can ignore the doubters and critics. You will then feel personally committed to solving the problem and will not rest until you do so.

  Robert Greene

  Hard Work, Creative, Action

  Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.179, Penguin

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• We're certainly not perfect, and we're not probably even better than anybody else, except that perhaps we are given to certain kinds of contemplation that provide a valuable balance to the knee-jerk reactionary behavior of most of our newspapers and political leaders. Poets are great doubters.

  Sam Hamill

  Perfect, Leader, Political

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• I definitely want to show how beautiful the marathon can be. I am the opponent of all those who find the marathon bad: the psychologists, the physiologists, the doubters. I make the marathon beautiful for myself and for others. That's why I'm here.

  Uta Pippig

  Beautiful, Running, Opponents

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• It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine power we could have little faith in ourselves. We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love. Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create. Faith is the great motive power, and no man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is eternally important, and that his work, well done, is a part of an unending plan.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Atheist, Men, Important

  Telephone Remarks to a Group of Boy Scouts: "What it Means to Be a Boy Scout", July 25, 1924.

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• Janice Gould is one of our best poets. The music of her poetry will delight you, and her gentle courageous accounts of tribal, family, and personal history make this book unforgettable. Doubters and Dreamers is a master-piece.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Book, Dreamer, Pieces

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• I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.

  A. N. Wilson

  Sympathy, Christian, Honest

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• In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in my hearing; the local papers said nothing against it; the local pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was a holy thing, and that the doubter need only look in the Bible if he wished to settle his mind.

  Mark Twain

  Taught Us, Mind, Hearing

  Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.17, University of Missouri Press

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• The Church will be punished because the majority of her members, high and low, will become so perverted. The Church will sink deeper and deeper until she will at last seem to be extinguished, and the succession of Peter and the other Apostles to have expired. But, after this, she will be victoriously exalted in the sight of all doubters.

  Nicholas of Flue

  Powerful, Sight, Catholic

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• Back in Georgie's attic, he yanks the phone out of the socket and begins scrolling down the names under dialed calls, praying to anyone who will listen. God. Baby Jesus. Saint Thomas the doubter. Saint Whoever, patron saint of losers. Praying, Please, please, don't let it be true. The first name shatters him. The second makes his head spin.

  Melina Marchetta

  Baby, Jesus, Names

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• As a scientist, I cannot help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation . . . I am an infidel today. I do not believe what had been served to me to believe. I am a doubter, a questioner, a skeptic. When it can be proved to me that there is immortality, that there is resurrection beyond the gates of death, then will I believe. Until then, no.

  Luther Burbank

  Believe, Feelings, Foundation

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• I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man. (from a biography of James by Robert D. Richardson)

  William James

  Tired, Men, Biographies

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• Roy Jones still number one and it's gon' be that way baby! For all these doubters, him [points to Larry Merchant] and the rest of them that said Roy Jones is a fluke, now they know.

  Roy Jones Jr.

  Baby, Motivation, Numbers

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• I've always been a bit of a self-doubter, I think a lot of actors are. I still am.

  Kit Harington

  Thinking, Self, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.

  Billy Childish

  Art, Book, Drawing

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• And so [my brother] Gilbert and I, brought up without a formal religion, remained throughout our lifetimes just what Father was, freethinkers. And, likewise, doubters and dissenters and perhaps Utopians. Father's rule had been 'Question everything, take nothing for granted,' and I never outlived it, and I would suggest it be made the motto of a world journalists' association.

  George Seldes

  Brother, Father, World

  George Seldes (2011). “Witness to a Century: Encounters with the Noted, the Notorious, and the Three SOBs”, p.24, Ballantine Books

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• The heart must be kept tender and pliable; otherwise agnosticism converts to skepticism. In such a case, the value of apologetics is voided, for apologetics is aimed at persuading doubters, not at refuting the defiant. He who demands a kind of proof that the nature of the case renders impossible, is determined that no possible evidence shall convince him.

  Edward John Carnell

  Heart, Demand, Impossible

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• The melancholy have the best sense of the comic, the opulent often the best sense of the rustic, the dissolute often the best sense of the moral, and the doubter often the best sense of the religious.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Religious, Atheism, Moral

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• It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  People, Barbarians, Indecisive

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