There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous andshallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what youknow ain't so'.

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William Butler Yeats said, “There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said ‘Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.’" This quote is brilliant in that it reinforces the idea that faith in something that you know is not true does not make you silly or frivolous. It makes you brave enough to believe in something when all logic says otherwise.

Source: Puddnhead Wilson

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