We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.
Sigmund Freud

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.
Stephen Leacock

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.
Martin Luther

I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend!
Joan Crawford

I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend.
Joan Crawford

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
Ansel Adams

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
John Adams

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.
Billy Graham

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Thomas Paine

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
Thomas Paine

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.
Brian Tracy

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Brian Tracy

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Joseph Campbell

Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
Samuel Goldwyn

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
Carl Sagan

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.
Anne Frank

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.
Ernest Holmes