Robert Frost Quotes

Skepticism may undermine beliefs, but never belief.

I wanted my players to always be searching, especially for truth. I wanted them to know what they believed and be able to defend it. Truth will always stand the test of scrutiny.

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

It’s critical that we know what we believe, no matter what we feel...that we know what is true, no matter what we see.

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.

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.

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

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

What do we believe? Why do we believe it?

Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

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

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.

A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion.

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

Faith feels itself secure neither with universal consent, nor with tradition, nor with authority. It seeks support of its enemy, reason.

If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?

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

The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.

I hate doubt, yet I am certain that doubt is the only way to approach anything worth believing in.

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

Philosophers there are who try to make themselves believe that this life is happy; but they believe it only while they are saying it, and never yet produced conviction in a single mind.

... always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the most certain form of knowledge, not a tentative opinion.