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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.

Dallas Willard

Tag: doubt belief faith

Why then should witless man so much misweene
That nothing is but that which he hath seene?

Edmund Spenser

Tag: perception perspective faith

belief is the death of intelligence.

Robert Anton Wilson

Tag: intelligence philosophy belief religion faith atheism metaphysics

Reason excludes faith," Alessandro responded, watching the blood-red mite as it made a dash for the rim. "It's deliberately limited. It won't function with the materials of religion. You can come close to proving the existence of God by reason, but you can't do it absolutely. That's because you can't do anything absolutely by reason. That's because reason depends on postulates. Postulates defy proof and yet they are essential to reason. God is a postulate. I don't think God is interested in the verification of His existence, and, therefore, neither am I. Anyway, I have professional reasons to believe. Nature and art pivot faithfully around God. Even dogs know that.

Mark Helprin

Tag: reason religion faith

I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.

Nelson Mandela

Tag: optimism faith hope

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tag: experience belief religion faith judging-from-experience unseen