Brandon Sanderson Quotes

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

Faith is Doubt.

Skepticism may undermine beliefs, but never belief.

Where doubt is, there faith has no power.

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

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

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

A lot of people had doubts. I tried to tell people I never had doubts.

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

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

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

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

Need is not quite belief.

Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must.

You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come.

I don't need faith.