skepticism and belief Quotes

Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

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

Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.

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.

Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.

To believe fully and at the same moment to have doubts is not at all a contradiction: it presupposes a greater respect for truth, an awareness that truth always goes beyond anything that can be said or done at any given moment.

Too much doubt is better than too much credulity.

During our religious instruction in school, we always asked: How can one prove the existence of God? And I have learned that the Catholic Church, which is never at a loss for an answer when it comes to existential questions, responds as follows: This question simply does not arise.

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.