Quote by Julian Barnes

“Was this what faith was? Just a believing and hoping and trusting in something, regardless of the evidence to the contrary?”

— Val Brelinski

“scepticism, as we know, can never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill”

— George Eliot

“Though he did not believe, he was not untouched by the magic of belief ...”

— Donna Leon

“never accepted things at face value, nor did what he was told to do. He had to believe something was right, and that it…

— Danielle Steel

“He respected the power of faith, the benevolence of churches, the strength religion gave so many people . . . and yet, for him,…

— Dan Brown

“His actions were a total contradiction of what thinks , in that way its a way hard to believe him...”

— aks

“but he believed solely because he desired to believe and possibly he fully believed in his secret heart even when he said, ‘I do…

— Dostoevsky F

“The paradigms were shifting. He could feel it. The old world, a world of infinite vastness and illimitable resources and future, was being confronted…

— Neil Gaiman

[The sceptic] must acknowledge, if he will acknowledge any thing, that all human life must perish, were his principles to prevail.All discourse, all action…

— David Hume

“That everything apart from death, everything he preached about, was nothing but a defence people had created against their fear of death. And yet…

— Jo Nesbø

“That was unthinkable, he said; all men believe in God, even those who reject Him. Of this he was absolutely sure; if ever he…

— Albert Camus

“The shadow of scepticism is dispelled in the light of real knowledge.”

— Etienne de L'Amour