It is not difficult to deprive the great majority of independent thought. But the minority who will retain an inclination to criticize must also be silenced....Public criticism or even expressions of doubt must be suppressed because they tend to weak...
Like investigation, healthy doubt arises from the urge to know what is true--it challenges assumptions or the status quo in service of healing and freedom. In contrast, unhealthy doubt arises from fear or aversion, and it questions one's own basic po...
I don't teach writing. I teach patience. Toughness. Stubbornness. The willingness to fail. I teach the life. The odd thing is most of the things that stop an inexperienced writer are so far from the truth as to be nearly beside the point. When you fe...
Some people live in cages with bars built from their own fears and doubts. Some people live in cages with bars built from other people's fears and doubts; their parents, their friends, their brothers and sisters, their families. Some people live in c...
Noah Vosen: [in car, on cell phone] Perhaps we can arrange a meet. Jason Bourne: Where are you now? Noah Vosen: I'm sitting in my office. Jason Bourne: I doubt that. Noah Vosen: Why would you doubt that? Jason Bourne: If you were in your office right...
I ought not to doubt the steadiness of your affection. Yet such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest, and thus it is, that i alw...
Every woman has... self doubt.
Only the dull don’t doubt!
If it wasn't for music, I doubt whether we'd be friends.
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.
Are we the first hominids? I really, really, really doubt it.
Got a bout of doubt? Breathe.
It is easier to believe than to doubt.
Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.
It is better to believe than to doubt.
Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.
I give everyone the benefit of the doubt.
They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.
You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
Faith is what replaces doubt in my dictionary.
Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
