The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Faith
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
-Theodore Roosevelt
The faith of every man, O Arjuna, accords with his nature, Man is made up of faith; as is his faith, so is he. The threefold austerity practiced with faith by men of balanced mind, without any expectation of reward, is said to be pure.
-Srimad Bhagavad Gita "Bhagwad Gita 17.3"
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
-Felix S. Cohen
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
Those who think religion is about belief don’t understand religion, and don’t understand belief.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
-Alfred Korzybski
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
-Khalil Gibran
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"
