Believe Quotes - page 5

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits? (Carl Sagan)
It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see. View quote
Edward de Bono
I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will. View quote
Clint Eastwood
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. View quote
H. L. Mencken
I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose. View quote
Clarence Darrow
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot. View quote
Paris Hilton
I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities. View quote
Whoopi Goldberg
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting. View quote
Stanisław Leszczyński
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first. (Peter Ustinov)
The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. View quote
Peter Ustinov
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
I believe that the fundamental alternative for man is the choice between "life" and "death"; between creativity and destructive violence; between reality and illusions; between objectivity and intolerance; between brotherhood-independence and dominance-submission. View quote
Erich Fromm
I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths. View quote
Eric Hoffer
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. View quote
Edward Teller
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. View quote
Norman Vincent Peale
We must believe in free will, we have no choice. (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
I believe in being an innovator. View quote
Walt Disney
Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe. View quote
Franz Kafka
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd. View quote
Voltaire