William James Quotes About Faith

Quotes about: Faith

• It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

  William James

  Life, Faith, Optimism

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.59, Courier Corporation

• Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

  William James

  Faith, Believe, Philosophical

• To leap across an abyss, one is better served by faith than doubt.

  William James

  Faith, Doubt, Abyss

• The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as he can the grounds for the faith that is in him, and leave his example to work on others as it may.

  William James

  Faith, Example, May

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.176, Courier Corporation

• Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.

  William James

  Faith, Hypothesis

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.95, Courier Corporation

• Better risk loss of truth than chance of error--that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.

  William James

  Faith, Religious, Loss

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.107, University of Illinois Press

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