Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing, than by believing too much.

The "passion for incredulity" can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe.

I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.

Incredulity is not wisdom.

A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.

It is no sin to doubt some things, but it may be fatal to believe everything.

I love what I think, and I'm never tempted to believe it.

Those who know nothing must believe everything.

It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.

It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.

I say on the air all time, "if you take what I say as gospel, you're an idiot."

It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""

People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.

He that believes all misseth; he that believes nothing, hits not.

Buddhism strongly discourages blind faith and fanaticism.

True belief is not about blind submission. It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that distance is doubt. Doubt, in other words, can feed faith, rather than destroy it. And it forces us, even while believing, to recognize our fundamental duty with respect to God's truth: humility. We do not know. Which is why we believe.

Doubt everything or believe everything: these are two equally convenient strategies. With either we dispense with the need for reflection.

Skepticism is not a position; skepticism is an approach to claims, in the same way that science is not a subject but a method.

Any belief that puts itself beyond doubt nurtures its own collapse.

We don't need to invest all of our faith in every concept, in every symbol, in every opinion that forms the totality of our knowledge. Faith means to believe in something 100% without a doubt, and to doubt our own knowledge can seem like the most frightening thing that can happen to us.

If fallacies come knocking at my door,I'd rather feed, and shelter full a score,Than hide behind the black portcullis, doubt,And run the risk of barring one Truth out.And if pretension for a time deceive,And prove me one too ready to believe,Far less my shame, than if by stubborn act,I brand as lie, some great colossal Fact.

Thou shalt not believe something just because you can explain it.

Never believe what you cannot doubt.

I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It.