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
Quotations
Faith
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
-Ezra Pound
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Faith is a question of eyesight; even the blind can see that.
-Dejan Stojanović
"The Sun Watches the Sun"
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
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
-Henry David Thoreau
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
-Thomas Paine
I respect more the person who struggles with his faith than the person who is confident in his skepticism.
-Robert Brault
