I Believe Quotes

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

A man lives by believing something.

What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited. At your peril do not try believing that!

[Scientists] have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it however it may jar against their inclinations.

[Con] men have long known . . . that their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable the gullible to continue to believe what they want to believe.

Fields are won by those who believe in the winning.

For malice will with joy the lie receive, Report, and what it wishes true believe.

You have to make a decision. You have to believe. Once you start doubting, you change your brain chemistry and you're done.

The reason that the unions and the other stakeholders have not cut a deal with the automakers is because they believe the federal government is going to bail them out.

How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.

That wasn't very nice...I do believe you killed my hat. ~Kisuke Urahara

We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is a Creator who blessed us with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

When there are no lyrics there are many parts of the imagination that can fill in the meanings of the music, so I strongly believe that it can be more powerful at times.

Believing is seeing and seeing is believing.

How will decent people in the region ever believe in peace if Arab terrorists interpret every gesture of peace as a display of weakness and then act accordingly?

You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.

To know things as they are is better than to believe things as they seem.

I think there are other issues that the Democrats could use to rally evangelicals. There are a lot of us, for instance, who believe that the Bible calls us to be environmentally responsible.

And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality.

I read for growth, firmly believing that what you are today and what you will be in five years depends on two things: the people you meet and the books you read.

Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe.

Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?

I believe in angels, the kind that heaven sends. I'm surrounded by angels, and I call them my best friends

The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.

We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.

I love Tris the Divergent, who makes decisions apart from faction loyalty, who isn’t some faction archetype. But the Tris who’s trying as hard as she can to destroy herself … I can’t love her.

We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.

I firmly believe that everyone deserves to live within walking distance of either beauty or convenience, if not both.

I do not believe in hypocrisy.

Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.

if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.

Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts.

Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.

Those who believe they can't repel the positive; they use the negative side of their talisman. Those who believe they can repel the negative; they use the positive side.

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.

People will still make great art, but I think it's good to assume you will always be a failure. People were believing the opposite.

I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.

An Atheist in Alabama is one that doesn't believe in Bear Bryant.

We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.

Reason may not always tell us what to believe, but it can help us on what we shouldn't believe.

Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it.

You have to be true to what you believe in and do your duty.

Believe! Believe in the limitless supply of God's goodness. The universe is filled with more wonders than you can imagine.

Well may your heart believe the truths Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

Ultimately it is the yearning to believe that anyone can be brought up to college level that has brought colleges down to everyone's level.

So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.

I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.

He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.