The magnificent believes half of what he hears and twice what he says.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Faith
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe so that you may understand.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.
-Robert Brault
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
-Theodore Roosevelt
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.
-Anonymous
Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.
-Robert Brault
