Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
-Felix S. Cohen
Quotations
Faith
Those who think religion is about belief don’t understand religion, and don’t understand belief.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.
-Stuart Chase
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is light by day and right mindfulness is protection by night.
-Gautama Buddha "Gautama Buddha"
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
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe so that you may understand.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.
-Robert Brault
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
-Ezra Pound
He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
-Thomas Fuller
