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 is a question of eyesight; even the blind can see that.
-Dejan Stojanović
"The Sun Watches the Sun"
Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.
-Benjamin Franklin
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
-Ezra Pound
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
-Felix S. Cohen
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
-Henry David Thoreau
It is easier to believe than to doubt.
-E. D. Martin
"The Meaning of a Liberal Education"
For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it’s okay to remain a radical atheist – it’s absolutely an individual right, but the important thing is with a compassionate heart – then no problem.
-Dalai Lama Xiv "Dalai Lama Xiv"
Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.
-Paul Johannes Tillich
