Paul Tournier Quotes

I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It.

Only the fools are certain and assured.

I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

A lot of people had doubts. I tried to tell people I never had doubts.

If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt.

We must be fully committed, but we must also be aware at the same time that we might possibly be wrong. People who claim to be absolutely convinced that their stand is the only right one...is a dead giveaway of unconscious doubt. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt.

Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

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

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

Faith is Doubt.

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that are not so

I wish I were as sure of anything as Charles (Krouthammer) is about everything.

Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not too sure that it is right

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they differ on minor points.