Bases Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee

“The majority of mankind is lazy-minded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much…

— T.S. Eliot

To believe practically that the poor and luckless are here only as a nusiance to be abraded and abated, and in some permissable manner…

— Thomas Carlyle

“...Today the lack of faith is an expression of profound confusion and despair. Once skepticism and rationalism were progressive forces for the development of…

— Erich Fromm

Today we are apt to downplay or disregard the importance of good thinking to strong faith; and some, disastrously, even regard thinking as opposed…

— Dallas Willard

“The wrong approaches to faith and to skepticism are equally detrimental to the path. For the former declares its answers too soon and is…

— Criss Jami

Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to preserve the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The way you think either expresses or undermines faith.

— Bill Johnson

A slew of cognitive traits predisposes us to faith,

— Pascal Boyer

“The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they…

— Marcel Proust

Faith: a firm belief for which there is no evidence.

— Bertrand Russell

Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

— Joanna Russ

For every gain in deep certitude there is a corresponding growth of superficial "doubt." This doubt is by no means opposed to genuine faith,…

— Thomas Merton