John Steinbeck Quotes

The truth often does sound unconvincing.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

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

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

Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?

The first lesson about trusting your senses is: don't. Just because you believe something to be true, just because you know it's true, that doesn't mean it is true.

Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.

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

Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

If faith is what you have to go on, if faith is the link between your beliefs and the world at large, your beliefs are very likely to be wrong. Beliefs can be right or wrong. If you believe you can fly, that belief is only true if indeed you can fly. Somebody who thinks he can fly, and is wrong about it, will eventually discover there's a problem with his view of the world.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

One man's faith is another man's delusion

Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.

I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed

Just because something seems impossible doesn't make it untrue.

At times truth may not seem probable.

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.

People never believe you.

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.

It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic.

The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has.

You must see first before you can believe.

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

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.