The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Faith
Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.
-Benjamin Franklin
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
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
Skepticism is the beginning of Faith.
-Oscar Wilde
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"
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
-Benjamin Franklin
Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
-Felix S. Cohen
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it’s okay to remain a radical atheist – it’s absolutely an individual right, but the important thing is with a compassionate heart – then no problem.
-Dalai Lama Xiv "Dalai Lama Xiv"
