Diane Duane Quotes

Truth does not demand belief.

Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

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.

Exactitude is not truth.

Truth is not a matter of argumentation and conviction; it is not the outcome of opinion.

He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.

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.

I think science is real.

But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.

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

Is not the truth the truth?

The thing about the truth is that it exists outside of belief. Even if nobody believes it, that thing is still true.

Just because something seems impossible doesn't make it untrue.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

Fact is based upon vulgar matter.

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

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.

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

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

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.

After a point it does not matter whether ... perceptions are true or false; it is the perceptions that matter.

Science is true, whether you believe it or not.