The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts.
The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.
Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
Belief is the death of intelligence.
A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.