Believing Quotes

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad. (George Bernard Shaw)
But it is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. View quote
Thomas Paine
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. View quote
Shirley Temple
I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe. View quote
Gertrude Stein
I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth. View quote
Brian Aldiss
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made. View quote
Franz Kafka
Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it. View quote
Gertrude Stein
I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state. View quote
Thom Yorke
Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. View quote
Jim Henson
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. View quote
Maya Angelou
What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian? (Clifford D. Simak)
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything. View quote
Albert Camus
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil, when he is the only explanation of it. View quote
Ronald Knox
A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything. View quote
Max Eastman
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. View quote
Albert Einstein
We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
Reality is that which when you stop believing in it, it doesn't go away. View quote
Philip K. Dick
Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice. View quote
Elihu Root
The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer. View quote
Laura Hillenbrand
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything. (Umberto Eco)
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had. View quote
Margaret Mead
Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making a profession of believing in it, and if it wins he will be very well placed. All politics is a matter of working hard without reward, or with a living wage for a time, in the hope of booty later. A man can be a Fascist or a Communist and if his outfit gets in he can get to be an ambassador or have a million copies of his books printed by the Government or any of the other rewards the boys dream about. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
The empiricist... thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing. View quote
George Santayana