Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe so that you may understand.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Quotations
Faith
What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.
-Anonymous
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
-Theodore Roosevelt
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"
Just because something is unbelievable does not mean you shouldn't believe it. Put another way, some things are worth believing in whether they're true or not.
-Jeb Dickerson
Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.
-Robert Brault
I respect more the person who struggles with his faith than the person who is confident in his skepticism.
-Robert Brault
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
To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
-Benjamin Franklin
The magnificent believes half of what he hears and twice what he says.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
