Doubtful Mind Quotes

An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.

I have never stopped considering not becoming a writer.

The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.

All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.

I hear that in my head all the time now: 'Why don't you go and see?'.

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

To this day, I haven't felt like I've made it. I'm waiting for them to pull the rug out from under me. I kind of feel like George Plimpton; I'm just experiencing this whole business with the really talented people.

I am always in doubt; I am never sure of myself.

I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith.

In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.

When we panic, we instinctively turn to our own internal resources because we doubt Him.