I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

The saying distinguishes between faith as a posture of acceptance and doubt as an engine of learning. Mizner implies that belief may be worthy of respect as a moral or emotional commitment, but it is skepticism—testing, questioning, refusing easy certainty—that produces genuine education. The epigram also satirizes complacency: faith can become a substitute for inquiry, whereas doubt forces engagement with evidence, argument, and experience. In a broader sense, it champions intellectual humility; education is not the accumulation of settled answers but the disciplined habit of revising one’s views when confronted with better reasons.