The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
Oscar Wilde

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
Oscar Wilde

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.
Ronald Reagan

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?
John Lennon

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
Maya Angelou

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Tony Robbins

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
Maya Angelou

It's all make believe, isn't it?
Marilyn Monroe

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Ronald Reagan

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
Mahatma Gandhi

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Thomas Jefferson

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
Thomas Jefferson

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.
Ronald Reagan

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
John F. Kennedy

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.
Steve Jobs

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.
John Lennon