I Believe Quotes

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute one delusion for another. It rejects all overt evidence as wicked.

Evil: That which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake

The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all men are just as easy to fool.

No man ever quite believes in any other man.

There was really nothing for serious men to do in cases of wild gossip, for superstitious rustics will say and believe anything.

Republicans believe largely in the market working, Democrats believe stereotypically that you've got to give people something. So why not give people a chance to let the market work for them.

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.

Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.

Would you believe I was a famous star? It's the truth.

There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.

We believe that peace is at hand.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion.

The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.

There's a different leader in Syria now. Many of the members of Congress of both parties who have gone to Syria in recent months have said they believe he's a reformer.

Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox.

You may include things you believe to be crucial in a design, but those elements are often only crucial to you.

Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.

In the word of no master am I bound to believe.

As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow.

So what we - all we really want, I think, from the so-called Democratic wing of the Democratic Party is really to stand up for what we believe in.

Terrorism and war have something in common. They both involve the killing of innocent people to achieve what the killers believe is a good end.

Uruguay is one of the biggest producers of software. We are breaking with the neoliberal model. We do not believe in free trade.

Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.'

There is no reason to believe that the Holy Spirit ever leaves awakened sinners, only as they leave the truth of God for some error or sin.

Film is a window to the real world but a lie that makes you believe the unbelievable.

I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.

Believe me, it would be a long, long, cold day before I decide to warm up next to Rupert Murdoch.

Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them.

Do you know...what I think is a great pity? It is this: that we have all become such skeptics that we hardly believe what our pious grandmothers told us.

We believe Slobodan Milosevic must be buried in his country, in Belgrade, at the Alley of Great Men.

When you believe, or are led to believe, you are unable to act upon the greatest desires of the soul, the result is mental and spiritual enslavement.

Let us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them.

You thank God [for your salvation] because "you do not attribute your repenting and believing to your own wisdom, or prudence, or sound judgment, or good sense.

Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance.

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families. GEORGE HENRY LEWES, The Physiology of Common Life Killing is not nearly as easy as the innocent believe.

I do not believe this darkness will endure.

My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.

my karma was to be born in America where nobody has any fun or believes in anything, especially freedom.

I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural.

Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time.

Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.

I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.

Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary.

Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

I'll see a beautiful girl walking up to me and I'll think, Oh, my God, I can't believe my good luck. But then she'll say, 'Where's your son?' or 'My mother loves you'.

For my part, I do not much believe in the predilections of boyhood.

O thou, whose days are yet all spring, Faith, blighted once, is past retrieving; Experience is a dumb, dead thing; The victory's in believing.