Gerald Brenan Quotes

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

We need wisdom the most when we believe in it the least.

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.

Doubt your doubts before you doubt your beliefs.

Without sounding overly pompous about it, I don't really trust certainty in anything, actually. Especially as I get older. Except love. I'm certain of love, I guess.

What happens when you get to the age of 60 is that you have no more doubts. I know why I'm here on this planet. I know what I need to do. I know what is a distraction and what isn't.

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

So, do I think I'm missing something? I really don't, and I think that comes with age.

What do we believe? Why do we believe it?

I'm more confident now than I've ever been. As you get older, you have to be.

It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible. What we know as blind faith is sustained by innumerable unbeliefs.

I often sit back and say, 'Be sure about what I believe.'

I think confidence comes with age and experience, honestly.

One percent doubt is zero percent faith.

I have no faith at all. I only hold convictions.

The believer who has never doubted will hardly convert a doubter.

When you don't believe something, you can't make yourself believe it. There's nothing you can do to believe it again. You either believe it or you don't.

As I get older, the things I'm sure of become fewer.

I think maybe it is better to believe than not to believe. But I couldn't tell you why.

The unbelieving mind would not be convinced by any proof, and the worshiping heart needs none.

What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.

Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference.

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

GIVE ME YOUR REASON TO BELIeVE