Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
-Felix S. Cohen
Quotations
Faith
Those who think religion is about belief don’t understand religion, and don’t understand belief.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us…
-Paulo Coelho
"The Witch Of Portobello"
Faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is light by day and right mindfulness is protection by night.
-Gautama Buddha "Gautama Buddha"
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
A man lives by believing something, not by debating and arguing about many things.
-Thomas Carlyle
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
-Henry David Thoreau
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
-Ezra Pound
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.
-Robert Brault
