Clarence Darrow Quotes

But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

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

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.

We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary. Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism and moral nihilism.

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.

Faith requires a leap; otherwise, it just becomes science.

An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.

Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.

It's called faith because it's not knowledge.

Worry and faith just don't mix.

If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

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

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence.

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.