Robert N. Anthony Quotes

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.

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

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

I don't believe. I know.

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

Knowing the 'right answers' does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they're true.

Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

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

Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.

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

Suspecting and knowing are not the same.

You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.

On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable.

We don't need to invest all of our faith in every concept, in every symbol, in every opinion that forms the totality of our knowledge. Faith means to believe in something 100% without a doubt, and to doubt our own knowledge can seem like the most frightening thing that can happen to us.

People would rather believe than know.

Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.

I do not believe...I know.

All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.

If you don't believe it you won't understand it.

Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.

Certitude is not the test of certainty.

We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.

I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.

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?