Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
Francis Bacon

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
Rudyard Kipling

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
Albert Camus

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
Albert Camus

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
Albert Camus

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.
Harry S. Truman

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
Harry S. Truman

You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
Harry S. Truman

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.
Dave Barry

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.
Dave Barry

We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.
Dave Barry

Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.
Dave Barry

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
Aldous Huxley

No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.
William Glasser

We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
Lily Tomlin

It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere.
Charles M. Schulz

The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere.
Charles M. Schulz

Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.
David Ogilvy