Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
-Voltaire
Quotations
Faith
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
-Havelock Ellis
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
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"
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Those who think religion is about belief don’t understand religion, and don’t understand belief.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.
-Swami Vivekananda
A man lives by believing something, not by debating and arguing about many things.
-Thomas Carlyle
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
-Benjamin Franklin
