Quote by Gideon Lewis-Kraus

“...people always manage to 'prove' what they want to believe; they'd be just as well off if they tried to prove the opposite.”

— Amin Maalouf

“not that they may believe against their wills (which would be impossible), but that they may be made willing to believe who were before…

— John Calvin

“People would believe what they wanted to believe;”

— Paulo Coelho

“I guess the people who're always trying to prove something are the ones who really don't believe it.”

— Matthew Lipman

“No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day…

— Henry David Thoreau

“a few centuries earlier. At that time the humans still knew pretty well when a thing was proved and when it was not; and…

— C.S. Lewis

“To believe is to not only hold others to their word but also to prove ourselves reliable in the guarantees we have offered.”

— Suman Pokhrel

“had long before realized that people who wanted to avoid the truth usually succeeded.”

— Nabeel Qureshi

“If anything was certain, it was that there would always be people looking for someone to tell them what to believe in and what…

— Jeff Guinn

“The proof that we believe something isn’t when we agree with what someone teaches us, it’s when we act on it.”

— John Bevere

“...I had arrived at an understanding of faith that had far more to do with trust than with certainty. I trusted God to be…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

“As is usually the case, those who lived at the time did not fully comprehend the enormous consequences of the events they witnessed.”

— Justo L. González