Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Quotes

The typical person has no trouble believing without knowing. What people need to realize is simply that you do not need to believe to know.

Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

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.

Skepticism may undermine beliefs, but never belief.

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

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

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

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth.

What do we believe? Why do we believe it?

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

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

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

Men are not necessarily more zealous for truth than they are for error.

To believe with certainty, we must begin with doubting.

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

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.

I'm a rationalist and a skeptic, someone who safely separates faith from reason.

For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true

A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?