Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes

Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.

Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

Need is not quite belief.

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

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

Faith is Doubt.

One percent doubt is zero percent faith.

Faith doesn't reduce uncertainty. Faith embraces uncertainty.

I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.

Faith is what replaces doubt in my dictionary.

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

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

Belief is thought at rest.

I don't need faith.

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

Leave that which makes you doubt for that which does not make you doubt.

Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one.

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.

Suspecting and knowing are not the same.