This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.
Lyndon B. Johnson

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
Robert A. Heinlein

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.
Alexander Hamilton

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.
William Butler Yeats

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.
Hubert H. Humphrey

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
H. L. Mencken

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
Ambrose Bierce

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
Gertrude Stein

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.
Thomas Sowell

The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it.
Norman Rockwell

I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.
Marshall McLuhan

Properly practiced creativity must result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.
William Bernbach

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
Dick Gregory

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
Michel de Montaigne

Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.
Louis Farrakhan

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
Bertrand Russell

I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.
Charles Barkley

I know that I'm never as good or bad as any single performance. I've never believed my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.
Charles Barkley

I will stand up for what I believe and for what I have always believed: Every person has a right to be rich in this country and I want to help them get there.
Jim Cramer