I Believe Quotes
The degradation, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe. They are greater than you would willingly believe.
Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it.
I cook and I really believe in the family dinner, I think that's a nice time to bring the family together.
After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.
The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.
Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
I've always had a great interest in sports that embody the values of commitment, hard work and teamwork - all values I strongly believe in.
A child of five, if properly instructed, can, as truly believe, and be regenerated, as an adult.
I read one thing, and 100 people can say good things then you read one bad thing that says you're the worst and you believe them.
When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.
One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.
A printer publishes a lie: for which he ought to stand in the pillory, for the people believe in and act upon it
I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not bid me to do so.
I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
Being born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in the very rural parts of Kansas led me to believe that everything was simple, everything made sense and that anything was possible.
Believe nothing, No matter where you read it, Or who has said it, Not even if I have said it, Unless it agrees with your own reason And your own common sense.
I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.
I was raised to believe in myself. I know I'm cool. I'm not trying to brag or say I'm the man or anything like that. I don't lie or cheat, and I'm not mean to anybody. I treat people with respect.
It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.
There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.
As long as we believe in sequential time, we see becoming instead of being. Beyond time, we are all one.
The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible.
I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such a drawn-out regression in the plastic arts.
Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.
A man who believes that he eats his God we do not call mad; yet, a man who says he is Jesus Christ, we call mad.
When you are working on something, you have to believe that people will still be reading when you're done!
I hate doubt, yet I am certain that doubt is the only way to approach anything worth believing in.
You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it.
The buddah can reside in the gears of a motorcycle as easily as in a flower on a mountaintop. To believe otherwise is to demean the buddah; which is to demean one's self.
I am still on stage. If you read Press...you would believe that I should be gone. But here I am doing it and DOING IT WELL!
Belief overflows to behavior. First we need to change what we believe. when we truly change what we believe, we'll gladly change how we behave.
The thing about the truth is that it exists outside of belief. Even if nobody believes it, that thing is still true.
The reason doctors are so dangerous is that they believe in what they are doing.
It was impossible to believe that someone did not want to be saved from their incoherence.
What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best - which I believed then and believe now is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me.
I've had plenty of good times and have settled peacefully into quite a boring existence that I love. I had enough fireworks and chaos. It is a blissful boring life, believe me.
The artist is a kind of a seer and by nature he is optimistic because he believes in the future.
Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic.
Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.