Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
-Felix S. Cohen
Quotations
Faith
Faith never makes a confession.
-Henry David Thoreau
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
-Alfred Korzybski
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"
Faith is composed of the heart’s intention. Light comes through faith… O Faith, give us faith!
-Vedas "Rig Veda"
We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
-Martin Luther
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
-Voltaire
An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.
-Robert Brault
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
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-Mahatma Gandhi
