Quotations on Faith
What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a world but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion.
-A. Robert Turgot
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself.
-Muhammad Ali
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
-Wilson Mizner
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
-Pearl S. Buck
This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, argue, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look, laugh, cajole, create, confront, confound, walk back, walk forward, circle, hide, and seek. To seek: to embrace the questions, be wary of answers.
-Terry Tempest Williams
Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits.
-Dan Barker
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-Mark Twain
In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice.
-Jerry Coyne

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