Terry Pratchett Quotes

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.

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

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.

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

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

Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.

It’s critical that we know what we believe, no matter what we feel...that we know what is true, no matter what we see.

If faith is what you have to go on, if faith is the link between your beliefs and the world at large, your beliefs are very likely to be wrong. Beliefs can be right or wrong. If you believe you can fly, that belief is only true if indeed you can fly. Somebody who thinks he can fly, and is wrong about it, will eventually discover there's a problem with his view of the world.

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

If you don't believe it you won't understand it.

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

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.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

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

Great is his faith who dares believe his own eyes.

I don't believe anything till I have seen the proof. For anything without proof, I think we should believe the theory that gives us peace. It doesn't matter whether the theory is true or not.

Knowing is higher than believing. Knowing means that there is NO doubt.

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.

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

I think maybe it is better to believe than not to believe. But I couldn't tell you why.

People would rather believe than know.

Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.