Rollo May Quotes

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

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

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same cage sort of, vibrating. So, I think as a writer, I'm really never sure of what I really believe.

The more I see, the less I know.

You believe by doubting and you doubt by believing; yet this state too is not the final one.

To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.

Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still

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

Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.

Where we have reasons for what we believe, we have no need of faith; where we have no reasons, we have lost both our connection to the world and to one another.

It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.

Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

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

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

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

I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

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

I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.