There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
-Alfred Korzybski
Quotations
Faith
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
-Khalil Gibran
Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.
-Benjamin Franklin
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
-Henry David Thoreau
A faith which does not doubt is a dead faith.
-Miguel De Unamuno Y Jugo
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.
-Swami Vivekananda
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
Faith is realizing that you always get what you need.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
"Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge"
To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
-Benjamin Franklin
For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it’s okay to remain a radical atheist – it’s absolutely an individual right, but the important thing is with a compassionate heart – then no problem.
-Dalai Lama Xiv "Dalai Lama Xiv"
