Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

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

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

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

Ignorance never settles a question.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

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

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom.

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

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

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

What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.

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

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

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

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.

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

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

Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.

The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.

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