Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Faith
Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
-Felix S. Cohen
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe so that you may understand.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
-George Bernard Shaw
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.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
-Voltaire
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
-Henry David Thoreau
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"
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
