A man lives by believing something, not by debating and arguing about many things.
-Thomas Carlyle
Quotations
Faith
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
-Oscar Wilde
It is easier to believe than to doubt.
-E. D. Martin
"The Meaning of a Liberal Education"
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
Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
-Erich Fromm
Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.
-Paul Johannes Tillich
Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
-Henry David Thoreau
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
-Havelock Ellis
An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.
-Robert Brault
