A Quote by Franz Kafka

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

Franz Kafka

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Believe Believer Doubt Makes Mankind Something Test Yourself

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Franz Kafka
German - Novelist
July 3, 1883 - June 3, 1924

Against the darkness outer God's light his likeness takes, And he from the mighty doubter The great believer makes.

Richard Watson Gilder

No man is disbeliever! Everyone is believer! All men believe in something! If a man does not believe in God, He is a believer too, because he simply believes that God does not exist! Don't give yourself airs just because you believe in something since everyman believes in something! Always be humble!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

Edgar Allan Poe

If you call yourself a non-believer, you're referring to disbelief in something, and you're acknowledging that there is something to believe in or not.

William Friedkin

The believer who has never doubted will hardly convert a doubter.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt.

Mignon McLaughlin

I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man. (from a biography of James by Robert D. Richardson)

William James

There is something insane about a lack of doubt. Doubt - to me, anyway - is what makes you human, and without doubt, even the righteous lose their grip, not only on reality but also on their humanity.

Tilda Swinton

Faith in Christ makes one a regenerated believer; obedience to the Holy Spirit makes him a spiritual believer.

Watchman Nee

An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.

Clarence Darrow

Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.

Andre Gide

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

Milan Kundera

Anyone can be sentimental about the nativity; any fool can feel like a Christian at Christmas. But Easter is the main event; if you don’t believe in the resurrection, you’re not a believer." “If you don’t believe in Easter,” Owen Meany said. “Don’t kid yourself—Don’t call yourself a Christian.

John Irving

Try to overcome your doubt. Believe you are beautiful. Look at yourself through someone else's green eyes. Believe someone out there will find you and kiss your skin until you can feel it blister with the heat. Believe in something bigger than your problems and you will be saved.