Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
-Khalil Gibran
Quotations
Faith
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
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
-Seneca the Younger
Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.
-Benjamin Franklin
Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.
-Robert Brault
Without faith there is no knowledge, without knowledge there is no virtuous conduct, without virtues there is no deliverance, and without deliverance there is no perfection.
-Scriptures "Uttaradhyayana Sutra 28.30"
An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.
-Robert Brault
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
-Havelock Ellis
The faith of every man, O Arjuna, accords with his nature, Man is made up of faith; as is his faith, so is he. The threefold austerity practiced with faith by men of balanced mind, without any expectation of reward, is said to be pure.
-Srimad Bhagavad Gita "Bhagwad Gita 17.3"
It is easier to believe than to doubt.
-E. D. Martin
"The Meaning of a Liberal Education"
