Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes

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

A belief may be larger than a fact.

I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can't present it as fact.

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

I don't believe. I know.

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.

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.

Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.

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

I do not believe...I know.

Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.

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

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't want to hope - I want to know. Like I don't hope there's a God, I know there's a God.

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

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.

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