Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

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

Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

If all you have is faith, then you never actually know anything.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

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

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.

The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.

Ignorance never settles a question.

In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

Things I don't understand don't destroy my faith in the things I do understand.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.

It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.