The magnificent believes half of what he hears and twice what he says.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Faith
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
Those who think religion is about belief don’t understand religion, and don’t understand belief.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Faith is realizing that you always get what you need.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
"Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge"
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.
-Robert Brault
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
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
-Khalil Gibran
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
-Voltaire
He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
-Thomas Fuller
