An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.
-Robert Brault
Quotations
Faith
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
-Henry David Thoreau
Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.
-Robert Brault
The magnificent believes half of what he hears and twice what he says.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.
-Swami Vivekananda
Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.
-Benjamin Franklin
Faith never makes a confession.
-Henry David Thoreau
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
-Thomas Paine
To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
-Benjamin Franklin
