Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

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

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.

I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

Suspecting and knowing are not the same.

A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.

But yet, I say, if imputation and strong circumstances, which lead directly to the door of truth, will give you satisfaction, you may have it.

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

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

All I have is the truth, and I've proven that.

Proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.

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

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

I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

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

Of course, there are always going to be some unsettled areas, but for me the overall evidence for Christianity chases away any real doubt that it's true.