Ernest Holmes Quotes

I'll follow him to the ends of the earth,' she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn't have any ends. Columbus fixed that.

Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.

Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

Some persons were to be sent in search of the river Missouri in order to discover whether it had any communication with the Pacific Ocean …

Mapping, both literal and metaphorical, has always been about our quest for knowing.

You have to have the ultimate faith and belief in what you do.

A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

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.

Suspecting and knowing are not the same.

But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe.

I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subjects of maps I have always been a true believer. It is on the map, therefore it is, and I am.

Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.

She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.

It's not wether you were right or wrong, but how much faith you were willing to have - that decides the future.

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

Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.

If you have no faith, you've lost your battle. You can't let things just happen. If you know right from wrong, and you know proof that certain things are true and people are telling you information to guide you and it's good solid information, than you should have it.

Here the people could stand it no longer and complained of the long voyage; but the Admiral cheered them as best he could, holding out good hope of the advantages they would have. He added that it was useless to complain, he had come [to go] to the Indies, and so had to continue it until he found them, with the help of Our Lord.

I mean it. Whatever happens, you have to believe that.