Rick Riordan Quotes

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

Even though there are no ways of knowing for sure, there are ways of knowing for pretty sure.

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

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

Knowing and assuming are two different things.

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.

Guessing isn't knowing.

The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.

If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.

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.

Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.

If all you have is faith, then you never actually know anything.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

It's one thing thinking something and another thing knowing it.

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

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.

A great deal more is known than has been proved.

It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.

A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.

Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.

Things I don't understand don't destroy my faith in the things I do understand.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.