Han Fei Quotes

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing.

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.

In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into three territories,--the territory of yes, the territory of no, and a broad, unexplored middle ground of doubt.

All knowledge degenerates into probability.

Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too.

The plain fact is that there are no conclusions.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.

The clear and perfect truth no man has seen, nor will there be anyone who knows about the gods and what I say about all things...; for, however perfect what he says may be, yet he does not know it; all things are matters of opinion.

I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.

There are no indisputable truths.

All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not to admit of any hypothesis whatever, much less of any which is supported by no appearance of probability.

I think maybe it is better to believe than not to believe. But I couldn't tell you why.

No one knows anything for sure.

Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.

The agnostic does not simply say, "l do not know." He goes another step, and he says, with great emphasis, that you do not know. He insists that you are trading on the ignorance of others, and on the fear of others. He is not satisfied with saying that you do not know, -- he demonstrates that you do not know, and he drives you from the field of fact -- he drives you from the realm of reason -- he drives you from the light, into the darkness of conjecture -- into the world of dreams and shadows, and he compels you to say, at last, that your faith has no foundation in fact.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

I'm such a chronic relativist, I can't hold down a strong opinion about many things long enough.

I don't have answers. I have questions.

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.