Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Faith
Without faith there is no knowledge, without knowledge there is no virtuous conduct, without virtues there is no deliverance, and without deliverance there is no perfection.
-Scriptures "Uttaradhyayana Sutra 28.30"
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
-Alfred Korzybski
The more the level of insecurity is reduced, the more the level of faith will grow.
-Victor Manuel Rivera
"In Search of True Freedom"
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
-Ezra Pound
A man lives by believing something, not by debating and arguing about many things.
-Thomas Carlyle
You know that if you get in the water and have nothing to hold on to, but try to behave as you would on dry land, you will drown. But if, on the other hand, you trust yourself to the water and let go, you will float, find this exactly the situation of faith.
-Alan Watts
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
-George Bernard Shaw
Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.
-Benjamin Franklin
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
-Oscar Wilde
