Unless you believe, you will not understand.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

—Saint Augustine

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

—Saint Augustine

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

—Saint Augustine

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

—Saint Augustine

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

—Saint Augustine

Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

—Noah Porter

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

—Lewis Carroll

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

—Leo Rosten

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

—Laurence J. Peter

Men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar