Believe Quotes

Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.

I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere.

I believe in Judaism, I was raised a Jew, I'm happy to be one - or proud to be one.

I was raised an Episcopalian. And I did not and I don't believe that anyone is looking out for me personally.

I was a virgin. People find that hard to believe, but when you're raised in a church, that was just the way it is.

I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.

I believe that the whole human race is the family of God.

Certain black leaders would believe that you have to go through their prism: 'If I lay my hand on you, you're OK.' So many people have made a living off of the pimping of race.

We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her.

I love my country, but I believe that we are too quick to censor nudity.

I believe the question now is: who murdered my mother?

It is difficult for me to believe that quantum mechanics, working very well for currently practical set-ups, will nevertheless fail badly with improvements in counter efficiency.

I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.

I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.

In any job, you have to give up certain things, and I believe that having a good quality of life means enjoying certain things only in moderation.

It is better to believe that a man does possess good qualities than to assert that he does not.

I personally believe we were put here to build and not to destroy.

I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

I do not believe having a baby is punishment.

Government or politics in America today is big business. Everybody makes money involving themselves in one way or the other, whether it's pollsters, whether they are policy wonks, whether they are pundits, whether they are those who believe that they must call it as they see it and then to be fair about it.

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.

I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book.

I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.

Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.