Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

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

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

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

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

Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.

What do we believe? Why do we believe it?

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

I don't need faith.

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

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

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.

Skepticism may undermine beliefs, but never belief.

Where doubt is, there faith has no power.

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

Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.'

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?

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.

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

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

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

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

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