Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
-Felix S. Cohen
Quotations
Faith
Give to faith the things which belong to faith.
-Francis Bacon
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
-Seneca the Younger
What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.
-Anonymous
Those who think religion is about belief don’t understand religion, and don’t understand belief.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
-Thomas Paine
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
-Alfred Korzybski
A man lives by believing something, not by debating and arguing about many things.
-Thomas Carlyle
