Quotations About / On: FAITH

  • 41.
    Both faith and cynicism make judgment too easy.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Ninth Selection, New York (1992).)
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  • 42.
    That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
    (Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), British poet, critic. Biographia Literaria, ch. 14 (1817).)
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  • 43.
    And 'tis my faith that every flower
    Enjoys the air it breathes.
    (William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet. Lines Written in Early Spring (l. 11-12). . . The Poems; Vol. 1 [William Wordsworth]. John O. Hayden, ed. (1977, repr. 1990) Penguin Books.)
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  • 44.
    Faith seeking reason.
    [Fides quaerens intellectum.]
    (Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109), British philosopher, theologian. Proslogion, preface (c. 1077-1078).)
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  • 45.
    Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Ninth Selection, New York (1992).)
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  • 46.
    Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
    (Christopher Fry (b. 1907), British playwright. Time (New York, Nov. 20, 1950).)
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  • 47.
    The experience of every past moment but belies the faith of each present.
    (Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Letter, June 20, 1843, to Lidian Jackson Emerson, in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 6, p. 88, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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  • 48.
    To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
    (Eric Hoffer (1902-1983), U.S. philosopher. The Passionate State of Mind, aph. 215 (1955).)
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  • 49.
    Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Tenth Selection, New York (1992).)
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  • 50.
    I think that he must be the man of the most faith of any alive.
    (Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Walden (1854), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 2, p. 296, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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