Quotes About Belief

Those who know nothing must believe everything.

You can't know, you can only believe - or not.

And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.

Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.

Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief

I want knowledge. Not belief. Not surmise. But knowledge. I want God to put out His hand, show His face, speak to me.

To know things as they are is better than to believe things as they seem.

Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.

Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false.

I don't believe. I know.

There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.

Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance.

Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.

For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.

Confidence in oneself stems from the trust one has in knowledge.

The subjectivist states his judgements, whereas the objectivist sweeps them under the carpet by calling assumptions knowledge, and he basks in the glorious objectivity of science.

I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.

The way to belief is short and easy, the way to knowledge is long and hard.

Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.