Carl Jung Quotes

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

In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.

We cannot infer that because sciences of things divine and human are full of controversies and quarrels, therefore their whole subject-matter is uncertain ; for there have been many persons so enamoured of contradiction, as to turn into ridicule geometrical axioms.

There's no point of having faith if you have evidence.

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

By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.

Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

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

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

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.

Knowledge is justified belief.

In my opinion, it helps enormously to know why something is true, rather than being told it is true, for why should you believe me? Never believe anything on the authority of a single person but seek confirmation — and reason is the best confirmation

The wonderful thing about science is that in science, faith is shakable.

Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all.

The scientist insists on verification; the religious theologian does not; the philosopher sometimes does and sometimes does not

If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value evidence. If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?

But what, after all, is faith? It is a state of mind that leads people to believe something - it doesn't matter what - in the total absence of supporting evidence. If there were good supporting evidence then faith would be superfluous, for the evidence would compel us to believe it anyway. It is this that makes the often-parroted claim that 'evolution itself is a matter of faith' so silly. People believe in evolution not because they arbitrarily want to believe it but because of overwhelming, publicly available evidence.

On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable.

I've gone through most of my life not believing anything. Either I know or I don't know, or I think.

If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you can accept a claim is by faith, then you are admitting that the claim does not stand on its own merits.