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
Quotations
Faith
Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
-Martin Luther King, Jr. "Martin Luther King. Jr"
Faith never makes a confession.
-Henry David Thoreau
Skepticism is the beginning of Faith.
-Oscar Wilde
Just because something is unbelievable does not mean you shouldn't believe it. Put another way, some things are worth believing in whether they're true or not.
-Jeb Dickerson
Those who think religion is about belief don’t understand religion, and don’t understand belief.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
A man lives by believing something, not by debating and arguing about many things.
-Thomas Carlyle
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
-Voltaire
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
