Believing Quotes

Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
Ben Stein

Faith, God, Knowing

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
Neil Young

Religion, Nature, Creation

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
Henry A. Kissinger

Men, Feeling, Two

Luck is believing you're lucky.
Tennessee Williams

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

Mean, Made, Progress

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.
Donald Cargill

Farewell, Friends, Reading

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
Alan Turing

Human, Deserve, Deceive

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.
Elvis Presley

Movies, Hero, Dream

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.
Theodor Adorno

Society, Others, Himself

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
Tom Robbins

Government, Business, Soul

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?
J. C. Watts

Government, Cannot, Used

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.
Christopher Hitchens

Faith, Religion, Health

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.
Thomas Aquinas

Knowledge, May, Start

To be on this set today, I feel very blessed for the second chance and for the opportunity, my record company believing in me and everybody here just showing me so much love and support.
Brandy Norwood

Love, Today, Blessed

Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.
Guy Kawasaki

Smart, Different, Wrong

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.
David Hume

Christian, Sound, Essential

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

While, Christ, Evolution

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
Gertrude Stein

Help, Cannot, Side

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.
Gertrude Stein

Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.
Philip K. Dick

Reality, Away, Whatever

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
Leon Trotsky

Same, Force, Gravity

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
Thomas Hobbes

Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.
Jesse Owens

Good, Find, Around

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
Shirley Temple

Mother, Him, Took

When somebody has convinced you that you're not worth anything to anybody anymore, and they spend a lot of time doing it, you start believing it yourself.
Ric Flair

Time, Yourself, Start

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

Reality, Away, Stop

Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.
Jessica Savitch

Time, Earth, Danger

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
Umberto Eco

God, Men, Nothing

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
David Joseph Schwartz

Mind, Done, Find

We've survived by believing our life is going to get better.
Paul Simon

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