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
Quotations
Faith
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
-Seneca the Younger
I respect more the person who struggles with his faith than the person who is confident in his skepticism.
-Robert Brault
Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.
-Benjamin Franklin
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Skepticism is the beginning of Faith.
-Oscar Wilde
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
-Thomas Paine
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
-Havelock Ellis
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
-Alfred Korzybski
