Eric Hoffer Quotes

I wouldn't like to be a non-believer in anything.

Faith is Doubt.

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

Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.

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

Doubt your doubts before you doubt your beliefs.

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?

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.

Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.

What do we believe? Why do we believe it?

I don't need faith.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.

Do not believe just because you want to believe.

The believer who has never doubted will hardly convert a doubter.

When you don't believe something, you can't make yourself believe it. There's nothing you can do to believe it again. You either believe it or you don't.

What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass rumble: Believe everything.

Unbelief is a belief.

It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.

God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of.

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

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.