Quotation by

Edgar Allan Poe

I have great faith in fools self-confidence my friends call it.

Faith

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The speaker trusts that people who are foolish often believe in themselves strongly, which others might see as just foolishness. This confidence, despite lacking wisdom, is seen as a kind of faith that the speaker values.

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Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her.

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

I've always had great faith in people.

I'm an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves, and been on a tremendous journey.