The magnificent believes half of what he hears and twice what he says.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Faith
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
-Thomas Paine
Those who think religion is about belief don’t understand religion, and don’t understand belief.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
-Felix S. Cohen
I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles.
-Robert Brault
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
-Plato
Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.
-Mary E. Pearson
"The Adoration of Jenna Fox"
Faith is realizing that you always get what you need.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
"Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge"
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
-Seneca the Younger
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
-George Bernard Shaw
