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
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.
-Swami Vivekananda
The magnificent believes half of what he hears and twice what he says.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
-Khalil Gibran
Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.
-Robert Brault
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
-Havelock Ellis
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
-Mahatma Gandhi
For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.
-Stuart Chase
