Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe so that you may understand.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Quotations
Faith
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
-Voltaire
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"
Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
-Felix S. Cohen
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
-Seneca the Younger
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
-Henry David Thoreau
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
-Khalil Gibran
He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.
-Swami Vivekananda
An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.
-Robert Brault
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
-Theodore Roosevelt
