William James Quotes About Doubt

Quotes about: Doubt

• Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

  William James

  Faith, Believe, Philosophical

• There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it refuses positively to account for are a genuine portion of reality; and they may after all be the best key to life's significance, and possibly the only openers of our eyes to the deepest levels of truth.

  William James

  Philosophical, Eye, Reality

  Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.429, Simon and Schuster

• I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.

  William James

  Doubt, Lovers, Disorder

  "The William James Reader".

• Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or they may only have dreamed or imagined they did so.

  William James

  Past, People, Doubt

  William James (1961). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.73, Courier Corporation

• I do indeed disbelieve that we or any other mortal men can attain on a given day to absolutely incorrigible and unimprovable truth about such matters of fact as those with which religions deal. But I reject this dogmatic ideal not out of a perverse delight in intellectual instability. I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.

  William James

  Men, Intellectual, Doubt

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.116, Xist Publishing

• Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible ... faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue of which is not certified to us in advance.

  William James

  Mean, Issues, Doubt

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.90, Courier Corporation

• To leap across an abyss, one is better served by faith than doubt.

  William James

  Faith, Doubt, Abyss

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