“The writing itself is no big deal. The editing, and even more than that, the self-doubt, is excruciatingly impossible.” WritingSelfBigsDealsDoubtImpossibleEditingBig DealSelf-doubt Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“Your body can dictate your mind, so when I walk to a fight a lot of times I'm scared, I'm scared to death, I have a lot of doubts of myself, I'm afraid to fail, I'm afraid to be humiliated in front of everybody; but what happens, I act like it's impossible for me to fail and that my victory is a certainty. So as I'm walking to the Octagon and I act with confidence my body takes over my mind and I become confident for real. As I'm walking I see the change in my mind and when I reach the Octagon I'm a different person, I'm very confident.” MindPersonsDifferentRealBodyHappensFightingWalksDoubtImpossibleFailingFrontsVictoryWalkingScaredYour BodyCertaintyMmaHumiliatedAfraid To Fail Author:Georges St-Pierre
“I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.” MeanTwoWholeHalfDoubtImpossibleEqualMathematicsMathProofLawyerMathematicalProgrammingMathematicianMathematical Proof Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss
“Scientists have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is life after death -- though they say it's virtually impossible to get decent Chinese food.” DoubtImpossibleShadowScientistChineseDecentProvenAfter DeathLife After DeathChinese Food Author:David Letterman
“It is impossible to decide whether a particular detail of the Pythagorean universe was the work of the master, or filled in by a pupil a remark which equally applies to Leonardo or Michelangelo . But there can be no doubt that the basic features were conceived by a single mind; that Pythagoras of Samos was both the founder of a new religious philosophy, and the founder of Science, as the word is understood today.” MindPhilosophyTodayUniverseReligiousDoubtImpossibleParticularMastersUnderstoodFilledDetailsFeaturesNo DoubtFoundersRemarksPupilsLeonardoReligious PhilosophyFilled In Book:The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe Source: The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe
“Every time I start on a new book, I am a beginner again. I doubt myself, I grow discouraged, all the work accomplished in the past is as though it never was, my first drafts are so shapeless that it seems impossible to go on with the attempt at all, right up until the moment - always imperceptible, there, too, there is a break - when it is has become impossible not to finish it.” FirstsBookMomentsSeemsPastGrowsBreakDoubtImpossibleGoes OnAccomplishedDiscouragedBeginnersNew Books Book:Force of Circumstance: Hard times Source: Force of Circumstance: Hard times
“The source of Pyrrhonism comes from failing to distinguish between a demonstration, a proof and a probability. A demonstration supposes that the contradictory idea is impossible; a proof of fact is where all the reasons lead to belief, without there being any pretext for doubt; a probability is where the reasons for belief are stronger than those for doubting.” IdeasReasonFactsBeliefDoubtImpossibleFailingSourceStrongerProofProbabilityContradictoryDemonstrationPretext Author:Andrew Michael Ramsay
“Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God.” KnowsMenNatureKnowingDoubtImpossiblePersonalityCuresRegionsAdequateFullnessKnowing God Author:Thornton T. Munger
“Personally, I'm afraid of suffering and afraid of dying. I'm also afraid of witnessing the suffering and death of those who are close to me. And no doubt I project these fears on those around me and those to come, which makes it impossible for me to understand why everyone isn't an antinatalist, just as I have to assume pronatalists can't understand why everyone isn't like them.” SufferingDoubtImpossibleDyingProjectsAssumingNo DoubtSuffering And Death Author:Thomas Ligotti