Acquiring knowledge Quote by George H. Smith

“We too often confuse faith with knowledge. Faith has to do with the unknown, not about what can be proven or can be shown…

— Grant Palmer

Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it is clear that the arguments brought…

— Thomas Aquinas

Faith is conviction without evidence, and sometimes even in the face of contrary evidence. In some quarters, this quality is perceived as a virtue.

— Jack McDevitt

Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence; faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.

— Sherwood Eddy

“Faith requires nothing but blind adherence, whereas knowledge demands the continual apprehension of an ever-expanding body of information. With faith, one can at least…

— Mark Hodder

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

— Anonymous

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…

— Dan Barker

Faith is the lack of evidence, and it shouldn't be that difficult to convince people that the right reason to believe something is that…

— Richard Dawkins

Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.

— Clarence Jordan

Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.

— Adyashanti

Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

— Senoraroy

Faith is a mental attitude that is so convinced of its own idea - which so completely accepts it - that any contradiction is…

— Ernest Holmes