Believing Quotes

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!

Believing in evolution is believing in the unproved, while believing in Christ is believing in the proven.

I left because I could no longer make records that sounded less and less like me. I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.

Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

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?

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

People make the mistake of drinking the Kool-Aid, believing your own hype, letting people tell you you're this or you're that or you're too this.

Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth?

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

I'm saddened to see that some have been misled into believing that Mr. Disney was something other than a kind, caring man.

Believing in who you are is a major part of a powerful combination for success.

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.

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.

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!