Believing Quotes

I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments.

Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.

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

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.

I wrote as a very angry young man, believing he was going to be killed in a world war.

Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

So it was a thing that my mother always taught me to go for your goals and never give up no matter what they are, and I started believing that later on in life.

The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.

By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.

What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype; to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That's the danger of celebrity.

It was of the greatest moment, and consequence, that they should believe in him when he came, for they could receive no benefit from him without believing him to be their Messiah.

You can walk through life believing in the goodness of the world, or walk through life afraid of anyone who thinks different than you and trying to convert them to your way of thinking.

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

The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It's a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they're losing money.

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.

Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?

Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.

Luck is believing you're lucky.

Without solid connections between homicides, we may have the reverse problem of believing three local murders are the work of one serial killer when they may actually be the work of three!

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.

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.

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?

I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.

In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.