Believe quotes
Bacon Francis 1561-1626
Essays „Of Studies"
They perfect nature and are perfected by experience.
Barrie J.M. 1860-1937
Peter Pan
Every time a child says „I don't believe in fairies" there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
Bell Clive 1881-1964
Civilization
Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.
The Bible (Authorized Version)
New Testament: St John ch. 4 v. 48
Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.
Connolly Cyril 1903-1974
Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those that do.
Disraeli Benjamin 1804-1881
Man, my Lord, is a being born to believe.
Douglas Norman 1868-1952
A man can believe in a considerable deal of rubbish,and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803-1882
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men- that is genius.
Euripides c. 485-406 BC
Man's most valuable trait
Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
Hoffer Eric 1902-1983
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready
to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.
Irving Washinton 1783-1859
I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.
Korzybski Alfred 1879-1950
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Lennon John and McCartney Paul 1940-1980 and 1942-
„Yesterday"
Yesterday
all my troubles seemed so far away,
now it looks as though they're here to stay,
oh I believe in yesterday.
Lewis C.S. 1898-1963
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen.
Not only because I see it, but because I see everthing by it.
Milner Alfred 1854-1925
If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and to damn the consequences.
Newman John Henry, Cardinal 1801-1890
Letter to Mrs William Froude
We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
Ovid 43 BC-AD c. 17
Ars Amatoria
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe that there are.
Proverbs and Sayings
German
The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people.
Proberbs and Sayings
Russian
Believe not your own brother - believe, instead, your own blind eye.
Rilke Rainer Maria 1875-1926
Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
Roade W. Winwood
Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes.
Salisbury Lord 1830-1903
Letter to Lord Lytton
No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you never should trust experts. If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe.
Shaw George Bernard 1856-1950
Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.
Stanislaw I I King 1764-1795
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.
Stevenson Robert Louis 1850-1894
Letter to Sidney Colvin
I believe in an ultimate decency of things.