Skepticism is the beginning of Faith.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Faith
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 not so much something we believe; faith is something we live.
-Joseph B. Wirthlin
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe so that you may understand.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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
Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.
-Paul Johannes Tillich
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
-Adolf Hitler
Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
-Felix S. Cohen
It is easier to believe than to doubt.
-E. D. Martin
"The Meaning of a Liberal Education"
Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.
-Benjamin Franklin
