Ralph Marston Quotes

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it.

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

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.

It's perfectly natural to doubt your judgment about doubting your judgment.

I think anybody goes through a crisis of confidence from time to time. You have to kind of doubt yourself, sometimes. It's the way forward.

Never cease doubting. When the doubts stop it is because you have stopped journeying.

When you cease doubting, you have stopped moving forward.

Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

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

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.

If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.

Who knows most, doubts most.

We'd all like to be certain of what we know, but I think the most important question is to ask yourself do you really know what you know?

In philosophy you're never 100% sure. You're always undermining what you think you know. That's always been my philosophy and my intellectual ethos.

A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt.

Self-doubt is the greatest enemy of any new good habit.

The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.