Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
— Ambrose Bierce
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
