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.

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