Those who think religion is about belief don’t understand religion, and don’t understand belief.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
-Alfred Korzybski
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
-Theodore Roosevelt
I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles.
-Audrey Hepburn
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
-Seneca the Younger
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"
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
-Henry David Thoreau
Faith is not so much something we believe; faith is something we live.
-Joseph B. Wirthlin
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
-Thomas Paine
