Fulke Greville Quotes

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.

Suspecting and knowing are not the same.

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

What people believe prevails over the truth.

All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real.

Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.

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

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

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

We can't assume what we don't believe.

Knowing and assuming are two different things.

The truth often does sound unconvincing.

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one would lie in his place

Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.

Which country is real, mine or the teacher's? My wish is that we might progressively lose our confidence in what we think we believe and the things we consider stable and secure, in order to remind ourselves of the infinite number of things still waiting to be discovered.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.

You do not need proof for what people want to believe.

We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?

Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.

Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts.

Belief is in ignorance. If you know, you know. And it is good that if you don’t know, know that you don’t know — the belief can deceive you. The belief can create an atmosphere in your mind, where, without knowing, you start thinking that you know. Belief is not trust, and the more strongly you say that you believe totally, the more you are afraid of the doubt within you.

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.