Faith Quote by Jacques Barzun

“Perhaps the reader is astonished by the frankness with which I expose and emphasize my mediocrity; let him remember that frankness is the virtue…

— Machado de Assis

“I am convinced, no, more like convicted, that to claim a few still spaces in which beauty is found and silence kept, is to…

— Sarah Clarkson

“My guides, and indeed those of everyone who gropes through this world, are two. Insolence of the mind, which inquires into everything, and inveterate…

— Ioannes Amos Commenius

“When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived. When, however, it forms its judgment, as…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“the flame of belief is fueled inexhaustibly by the fears of death, oblivion, and meaninglessness. Where”

— Irvin D. Yalom

“And he thought how in all the cases he'd solved the heart of crime seemed closer to his waking dreams than his own shadow…

— Richard Godwin

“When a writer uses his secret wounds as his starting point, he is, whether he is aware of it or not, putting great faith…

— Michael D. Jackson

“Sometimes it was difficult to accept the terrible lengths people would go to for their beliefs, particularly when they fooled themselves into thinking they…

— Anna Lee Huber

“We are all deeply ashamed by choices we have made and things we have done. Many of these things are worthy of the raunchiest…

— Vance C. Kessler

“...it is infinitely better that the profane and loose be unmasked than to be muffled up under the veil and hood of traditional hypocrisy,…

— Roger Williams

“The truth was not always pleasant. It did not always have good manners and clean its fingernails. Sometimes it was in the eyes of…

— James Ramsey Ullman

“And that in this backsliding day, we might not spend our breath in fruitless complaints of the evils of others; but may everyone begin…

— Various