Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Faith
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.
-Swami Vivekananda
Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.
-Mary E. Pearson
"The Adoration of Jenna Fox"
He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
-Thomas Fuller
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
-Voltaire
Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
-Seneca the Younger
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"
A man lives by believing something, not by debating and arguing about many things.
-Thomas Carlyle
