What We Believe Quotes

My parents believe in the principle of ‘sink or swim,’ or ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger ― or it kills you.” From “The Education of Robert Nifkin

The Democrats believe that if God did not want them to raise taxes, He would not have created the Internal Revenue Service.

I grew up in a very politically aware family. My mother always taught me to question everything, never believing anything simply at face value - especially the nicest, most adamant politicians.

We believe we're seeing the world just fine until it's called to our attention that we're not.

Whatever I hold in my mind tends to manifest itself in my life. What we believe and assume creates most of our reality and our experience.

If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don't usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves.

There are times, Sember, when I could believe your mother had a secret lover. Looking at you makes me wonder if it was one of my goats.

You don't want to believe everything you hear.

In all the events of life, we ought still to preserve our scepticism. If we believe that fire warms, or water refreshes, it is only because it costs us too much pains to think otherwise.

Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified.

I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.

I'm teaching myself to believe in things I don't understand, I don't even know if they're true, but that's what dreamers do.

Life is so beautiful and special, I can't believe I ever let myself forget that

What we wish, that we readily believe.

The difference between my world record and many world class runners is mental fortitude. I ran believing in mind over matter.

When we believe it, we will see it!

I do believe in saving shoes. But that does not make me a hoarder. I am not a hoarder. But why not save them? Styles come back.

Singers are experts at keeping things from dripping on their throats. Believe me, they're experts.

It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.

I do think the internet has killed the mystery of the planet. It's removed the pain, the passion, and the struggle - I firmly believe they're all part of creativity.

It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.

The very scary thing about religion, to me, is that people actually believe God is who they think He is.

Would you believe, I am still offered scripts and projects all the time?

The cleverest trick of the Devil is that nobody believes in him. It. Her. Well, we have been very stupid.

For a few minutes, everything is so cute that the mind reels.... And then, believe it or not, things get worse. So I shot myself.

For every little kid who still believes in Santa Claus, there is at least one adult who still believes in professional wrestling.

It boils down to how much do you really believe and want it.

Well, it's hard for a mere man to believe that woman doesn't have equal rights.

The man who insists he as good as anybody, believes he is better.

To be a seeker implies that you need the future. If this is what you believe, it becomes true for you: you will need time until you realize that you don't need time to be who you are.

I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand.

It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be

I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.

In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.

I do not believe that a child can be reformed by lock and key and bars, or that fear can ever develop a child's character.

Selfishness and separatation have led me to believe that the world is not my problem. I am the world.

The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion

I like radically cutting into the painting, inserting these paper birds, and then trying to figure out how to believe in it.

When people say they love you, you just have to decide to believe them, because you'll never know for sure.

Never, under any circumstance, do I touch soup, as I do not believe in building a meal on a lake.

I'd walk a million miles to give her what she needs. But she would walk a million more to do what she believes.

Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.

As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.

I truly believe I may be getting too big for my own good.

Anyone who's making a huge impact or speaking out about what they believe in or who's brave enough to be themselves is a superhero to me.

I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enable you to live.

Those who believe patriotism to be the last refuge of the scoundrel have underestimated compassion.

People in my industry [PR] would like people to believe we have ways to control social media. But that's one of the great swindles.

To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy, or to pursue any excessive desire, diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self.

Donald Trump believes in a right and a wrong.