Harold Pinter Quotes

How can the unknown merit reverence? In other words how can you revere that of which you are ignorant? At the same time, it would be ridiculous to propose that what we know merits reverence. What we know merits any one of a number of things, but it stands to reason reverence isn't one of them. In other words, apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

Prayer is so complicated.

Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

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

If there's any place where you would express your deepest doubts, it would be church.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

I believe that God wants us to show respect.

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

I get increasingly respectful of people who have faith and increasingly creeped out by them.

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage, and such only, as he believes to be acceptable to him.

Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all.

Uncertainty means that we do not have a complete description of the world which we fully believe to be true.

I tell my children what I think myself: That religion is not necessarily convincing, but it is still interesting and not to be laughed at or denigrated.

'Belief' means something that you do not know. You want to assume and bring a certainty to something that you do not know. That means you are concretising your ignorance. There is no need to believe anything.

What do I believe? I do not know; I do not know; I do not know.

Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.

There’s no such thing as trust unless you have unanswered questions in your life. If you know everything, theres nothing to trust God for.

I do not understand! I understand nothing! I cannot understand nor do I want to understand! I want to believe! To Believe!

These are just things that we don't know, and that's where trust and faith come in.