Believing Quotes

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

Love is a believing creature.

Luck is believing you're lucky.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

It's easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that's written about you... Who knows? In a couple of years, you might find me in the loony bin!

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.

Seeing is not always believing.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution lives. These changes will end the revolution.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.

Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality.

Blessed be God that Thou hast filled the soul of Thy servant with joy and peace in believing.

You're going to be entertained. But when you finish hearing me singing, you're going to want to keep going, and you're going to keep believing and that's the kind of artist I am.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.