Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

Quote by Robertson Davies

Topics: Self Doubt Quotes

The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for...

The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for...

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also...

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also...

Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The...

Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The...

We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we...

We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we...

The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind,...

The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind,...

No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.

No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an...

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an...

Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of...

Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of...

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an...

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an...

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more...

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more...

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors...

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors...

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

It isn't everybody who is the hero of his own romance, and when we meet...

It isn't everybody who is the hero of his own romance, and when we meet...

Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am...

Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am...

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.

Ideas are fatal to caste

Ideas are fatal to caste

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.