“Few of the virtues are really useful. Fidelity leads to lost opportunity, truth-telling to injured feelings, charity to additional solicitations. The least productive, and possibly the most overrated, is faith. The faithful deny reason, close their minds to the evidence of their senses, and remain unfailingly optimistic in the face of disaster. They inevitably get just what they deserve.” — Jack McDevitt, Deepsix
“Faith, n.: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.” — Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
“People can maintain an unshakable faith in any proposition, however absurd, when they are sustained by a community of like-minded believers.” — Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
“There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.” — Isaac Asimov, The Stars in Their Courses
“Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without a rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck.” — Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Smith (1822-12-08)
“In order to hold your faith intact/Be sure it’s kept unsullied by fact.” — Donald E. Westlake, Don’t Ask
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