Mark Hunt Quotes

Suspecting and knowing are not the same.

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

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

Which country is real, mine or the teacher's? My wish is that we might progressively lose our confidence in what we think we believe and the things we consider stable and secure, in order to remind ourselves of the infinite number of things still waiting to be discovered.

Guessing isn't knowing.

Even though there are no ways of knowing for sure, there are ways of knowing for pretty sure.

Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

Need is not quite belief.

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

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.

We can't assume what we don't believe.

Trust is very hard if you don't know what you're trusting.

'Belief' means something that you do not know. You want to assume and bring a certainty to something that you do not know. That means you are concretising your ignorance. There is no need to believe anything.

It's called faith because it's not knowledge.

A great deal more is known than has been proved.

It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.

I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness.

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

Things I don't understand don't destroy my faith in the things I do understand.

Certainty, not data, is knowledge.

If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.

Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.