Accepting Quote by Gail Fine

We certainly have to have a view about knowledge in order to decide whether some version of foreknowledge is necessary for inquiry or whether…

— Gail Fine

Skepticism is essential to the quest for knowledge, for it is in the seedbed of puzzlement that genuine inquiry takes root. Without skepticism, we…

— Paul Kurtz

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence…

— Thomas Aquinas

Ethologists thus have an interest in looking at these capacities for the reliable acquisition of belief, and it is not surprising that they have…

— Hilary Kornblith

Religious faith obscures uncertainty where uncertainty . . . exists, allowing the unknown, the implausible, and the . . . false to achieve primacy over the facts.

— Sam Harris

“Belief in things unseen is one thing; belief in things without evidence is another. And this latter kind of belief has a problem: How…

— Mike McHargue

False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment.

— Richard Dawkins

Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Even if we don't have any knowledge in this life, we have and tend to rely on relevant true beliefs; and that's sufficient for…

— Gail Fine

Belief is in ignorance. If you know, you know. And it is good that if you don’t know, know that you don’t know —…

— Anonymous

“At the very least, one would hope that by becoming aware of the many ways our brain can trick us, we would arrive at…

— Robert Carroll

To believe with certainty, we must begin with doubting.

— Anonymous