“Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.”

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.

Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.

Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.

We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Patriotism is idolatry of the self.

Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.

It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.

Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.

Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.

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

It’s kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn’t be doing it and I don’t know how to do it and I’m going to fail and that I fooled them. I always try to find a way out.

A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.

When I started, I felt that there was this incredible amount of doubt of my ability as a producer.

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.