Robert Jordan Quotes

I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies.

The first lesson about trusting your senses is: don't. Just because you believe something to be true, just because you know it's true, that doesn't mean it is true.

We didn't exactly believe your story.' Then --?' 'We believed your two hundred dollars.' 'You mean --' She seemed not to know what he meant. 'I mean that you paid us more than if you'd been telling the truth,' he explained blandly, 'and enough more to make it all right.

I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too.

I hate not knowing what to believe anymore. I hate not knowing what's real.

Do not believe the truth. The truth is tiny compared to what you have to do.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

What do I believe? I do not know; I do not know; I do not know.

But is all this true?" said Brutha. Didactylos shrugged. "Could be. Could be. We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork." "You mean you don't KNOW it's true?" said Brutha. "I THINK it might be," said Didactylos. "I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about.

Not seeing is half-believing.

Knowing is higher than believing. Knowing means that there is NO doubt.

A world of confusion and disappointment results from trying to believe without obeying.

My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

True belief is not about blind submission. It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that distance is doubt. Doubt, in other words, can feed faith, rather than destroy it. And it forces us, even while believing, to recognize our fundamental duty with respect to God's truth: humility. We do not know. Which is why we believe.

I believe in everything - a little bit.

I.. Uh...What are you having?... Did you make some of those up

But I cannot forget that, at other times I have been deceived in sleep by similar illusions; and, attentively considering those cases, I perceive so clearly that there exist no certain marks by which the state of waking can ever be distinguished from sleep, that I feel greatly astonished; and in amazement I almost persuade myself that I am now dreaming.

A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.

I think Abraham Lincoln said believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see.

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.

A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

But just the fact that he was sparkling leads me to doubt everything that happened.