The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Faith
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
-Seneca the Younger
I respect more the person who struggles with his faith than the person who is confident in his skepticism.
-Robert Brault
What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.
-Anonymous
The magnificent believes half of what he hears and twice what he says.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
-Alfred Korzybski
Fear is the glue that keeps you stuck. Faith is the solvent that sets you free.
-Shannon L. Alder
Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.
-Benjamin Franklin
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
-Thomas Paine
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
