Faith of consciousness is freedom.
Faith of feeling is slavery.
Faith of body is stupidity. – Gurdjieff

The soul, when it sees a trace of its kindred reality, is delighted and thrilled and returns to itself and remembers itself. – Plotinus

I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself. – Gurdjieff

Our faith is the result of our verifications. – Robert Burton 

The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. – 1 Corinthians 2:14 (Paul)

We walk by faith, not by sight. – Paul

Blind trust, when you are engaged in war, is as vain as a gambler’s reliance on his luck. – Rumi

Trust in Allah, but tie your camel’s leg. – Muhammad

From indescribable transforming flashes . . . Feel and trust! We know too well flames can turn to ashes: in art, though, flame is kindled from dust. – Rainer Maria Rilke

If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful.-Rainer Maria Rilke

When the verification comes to what we believe, it always seems like a little miracle. And we have to demand verification for what we believe. – Rodney Collin

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. – Aristotle 

I learn by going where I have to go. – Theodore Roethke