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
A man lives by believing something, not by debating and arguing about many things.
-Thomas Carlyle
Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.
-Paul Johannes Tillich
Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.
-Mary E. Pearson
"The Adoration of Jenna Fox"
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
-Adolf Hitler
Skepticism is the beginning of Faith.
-Oscar Wilde
Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
-Felix S. Cohen
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 smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
-Henry David Thoreau
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
