Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
Variant: Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
“Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.”
Source: Man for Himself (1947), Ch. 4
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German social psychologist and psychoanalyst 1900–1980Related quotes
“Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–1991) Polish-born Jewish-American author
Nobel lecture (1978)
Context: Not only has our generation lost faith in Providence but also in man himself, in his institutions and often in those who are nearest to him. In their despair a number of those who no longer have confidence in the leadership of our society look up to the writer, the master of words. They hope against hope that the man of talent and sensitivity can perhaps rescue civilization. Maybe there is a spark of the prophet in the artist after all.
“The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Quoted in Victor J. Stenger (1990), Physics and Psychics
Misattributed
Ali Zayn al-Abidin (659–713) Great-grandson of the Prophet Muhammad
Muhammad Kulayni, Usūl al-Kāfī, vol.2, p. 89.
Religious wisdom
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church
Variant: For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.
Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903–1994) israeli intellectual
"Judaism, Human Values and the Jewish State" (1995)