Doubt Quote by Paulo Coelho

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

— Robertson Davies

“Fanaticism is ... compensation for doubt”

— Robertson Davies

The way I see it, there is no greater spiritual beauty than fanaticism, of a sort so sincere it can only end in martyrdom.

— Isabelle Eberhardt

For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need of it,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion

— Voltaire

Doubts must be resolved alone within the soul. Otherwise one would profane one's own powerful solution.

— Wassily Kandinsky

“Modern fanaticism thrives in proportion to the quanitity of contradictions and nonsense it poures down the throats of the gaping multitude, and the jargon…

— William Hazlitt

Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind.

— William Cowper

A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.

— Dean Koontz

“There are many instances in history of people who allow their skepticism to cut the nerve of moral effort, and there are numerous people,…

— Elton Trueblood

The alternative to fanaticism and to death is not some miraculous realization that someone has been wrong and he has to apologize. No, the…

— Amos Oz

The key to all fanatical beliefs is that they are self-confirming…(some beliefs are) fanatical not because they are "false", but because they are expressed…

— Neil Postman