Eric Kripke Quotes

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

I don't feel I'm better than any man out there or that I have anything to teach, and the more I learn about myself, the less comfortable I feel saying anything at all.

I find humanism to be the most rational and positive philosophy for life. And it's not a new thing at all - the history of humanist thought is deep and inspiring.

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not too sure that it is right

We are all hypocrites but introspective people use this insight to moderate their self-righteousness. There’s an inverse relationship between introspection and intolerance.

Doubt is crucial, I think, in every character I have ever played.

I'm not one of those people who easily judges something or someone.

I have never been 100% confident that I am right about anything.

I think it's very important to keep in the back of your mind: 'What if I'm wrong?'

If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them.

The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things.

I doubt about myself. I think doubts are good in life. The people who don't have doubts I think only two things-arrogance or not intelligence.

If you haven't doubted, you probably haven't thought very hard about what you believe.

The thing I believe in most in the world is my own fallibility, so I am willing to believe that I may be wrong too.

A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

As Christians we need to be patient, understanding, and kind. Instead of going on the attack, we can ask genuine questions. Instead of bristling when our narrative is summarily dismissed, we can carefully explain our way of seeing things. And when we are wrong, we won't be afraid to say so.

Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them.

Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever.

As a citizen, hopefully I'm humanist. As an artist, I'm free.

I've always been strong-minded, but I wonder.