The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Faith
Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.
-Robert Brault
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
-Henry David Thoreau
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
-Seneca the Younger
I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles.
-Robert Brault
Without faith there is no knowledge, without knowledge there is no virtuous conduct, without virtues there is no deliverance, and without deliverance there is no perfection.
-Scriptures "Uttaradhyayana Sutra 28.30"
To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
-Benjamin Franklin
Faith is not so much something we believe; faith is something we live.
-Joseph B. Wirthlin
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
-Swami Vivekananda
The magnificent believes half of what he hears and twice what he says.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
