Those who think religion is about belief don’t understand religion, and don’t understand belief.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Faith
It is easier to believe than to doubt.
-E. D. Martin
"The Meaning of a Liberal Education"
An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.
-Robert Brault
I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles.
-Audrey Hepburn
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe so that you may understand.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
The faith of every man, O Arjuna, accords with his nature, Man is made up of faith; as is his faith, so is he. The threefold austerity practiced with faith by men of balanced mind, without any expectation of reward, is said to be pure.
-Srimad Bhagavad Gita "Bhagwad Gita 17.3"
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
He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
-Thomas Fuller
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
-Khalil Gibran
