Mortimer Adler Quotes

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

We can't assume what we don't believe.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

Arguments hardly affect the faithful- their beliefs have an entirely different foundation.

To the medieval mind the possibility of doubt did not exist.

I wouldn't like to be a non-believer in anything.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it, I see everything else.

Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that you've grasped the truth.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.

What do we believe? Why do we believe it?

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.

I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can't present it as fact.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.

Faith is Doubt.

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.

We cannot infer that because sciences of things divine and human are full of controversies and quarrels, therefore their whole subject-matter is uncertain ; for there have been many persons so enamoured of contradiction, as to turn into ridicule geometrical axioms.

'Belief' means something that you do not know. You want to assume and bring a certainty to something that you do not know. That means you are concretising your ignorance. There is no need to believe anything.