William James Quotes about Doubt

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

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

William James

Faith, Doubt, Abyss

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

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

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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

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