"The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God."
― Oliver Wendell Holmes
Topic(s):
Faith
More From Oliver Wendell Holmes
- "The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."
- "A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!"
- "There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise."
More In Faith
- "No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith."― Anton Chekhov
- "Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel."― Ambrose Bierce
- "I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience."― Joshua Leonard