Stuart Chase Quotes

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

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

I don't need faith.

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

A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.

All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.

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

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

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

Need is not quite belief.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

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

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.

The most obdurate incredulity may be shamed or silenced by facts.

I am willing to believe, but I do not have the gift of faith. I'm skeptical.

GIVE ME YOUR REASON TO BELIeVE

Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.

You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.

The unbelieving mind would not be convinced by any proof, and the worshiping heart needs none.

Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.

Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.

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

A firm belief atthracts facts. They come out iv holes in the ground an' cracks in th' wall to support belief, but they run away fr'm doubt.

I still doubt it will work." "You'd doubt the sun's rising if you weren't proven wrong each day," Raoden said with a smile.