Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
-Seneca the Younger
Quotations
Faith
Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
-Felix S. Cohen
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
-Havelock Ellis
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
-Alfred Korzybski
The magnificent believes half of what he hears and twice what he says.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.
-Stuart Chase
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
-Theodore Roosevelt
We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
-Martin Luther
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
