The magnificent believes half of what he hears and twice what he says.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quotations
Faith
Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us…
-Paulo Coelho
"The Witch Of Portobello"
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
-Felix S. Cohen
We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
-Martin Luther
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
-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
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
-Seneca the Younger
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
-Alfred Korzybski
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
