Friedrich Hayek Quotes

Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.

If you ask me why I believe in human freedom, I don’t know. But it is the most important thing to me.

Freedom remains still the wisest cure for freedom's temporary inconveniences.

The genius of a free society is that its citizens have wide scope to pursue their own visions of the good without excessive hindrance by their fellow citizens.

It's always a leap of faith when you get involved with somebody.

You've got to allow people to make mistakes, even though your gut tells you that the guy is going to get torched.

Faith is like stepping off a cliff and expecting one of two outcomes - you will either land on solid ground or you will be taught to fly.

You have to trust or you're only living half a life.

In the midst of our lives, of our freedom and our struggles, we have to make a radical, absolute decision. And we never know when lightening will strike us out of the blue. It may be when we least expect to be asked whether we have the absolute faith and trust to say yes

There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in straight and narrow Enclosures. It will speak freely, and act so too; and take nothing ill where no ill is meant; nay, where it is, 'twill easily forgive, and forget too, upon small Acknowledgments.

Remain open. There is something bigger than you know going on here.

Only the person who risks is truly free

I love the thought of not knowing how things will turn out but the willingness to invest anyway.

FAITH receives more than it asks. DOUBT loses more than it disbelieved.

The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value. Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.

Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.

Can you trust me, he said. Not will you. Can you. Can I trust him? What do I have to lose?

We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough.

The genealogy of blessing always traces back to God-ordained risk.

Often, the stories are very much like trust falls. You fall, and you hope the story's going to catch you.

If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk.