Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

Faith is Doubt.

Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one.

One percent doubt is zero percent faith.

Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.

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

Certitude is not the test of certainty.

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

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

Need is not quite belief.

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

Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.

Leave that which makes you doubt for that which does not make you doubt.

Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all.

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

Suspecting and knowing are not the same.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.

Faith doesn't reduce uncertainty. Faith embraces uncertainty.

Doubt is faith's shadow.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.