Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
-Felix S. Cohen
Quotations
Faith
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
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
-Plato
An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.
-Robert Brault
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
-Havelock Ellis
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Those who think religion is about belief don’t understand religion, and don’t understand belief.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
