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title: "5 Believing Quotes By Gertrude Stein"
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> [Eating and sleeping are not like loving and breathing. Washing is not like eating and sleeping. Believing is like breathing and loving.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/eating-and-sleeping-are-not-like-loving-and-breathing-washing-is-not/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

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> [Superstition is believing that something means anything and that anything means something and that each thing means a particular thing and will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/superstition-is-believing-that-something-means-anything-and-that/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

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> [This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/this-is-the-real-thing-of-disillusion-that-no-one-not-any-one-really/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

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> [I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/i-rarely-believe-anything-because-at-the-time-of-believing-i-am-not/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f1/gertrude-stein-667_believe_i-rarely-believe-anything-because-at-the_2178089.jpg)

> [Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/argument-is-to-me-the-air-i-breathe-given-any-proposition-i-cannot/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

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## Other authors on Believing

## More by Gertrude Stein

> [I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/i-certainly-do-care-for-you-jeff-campbell-less-than-you-are-always/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

> [Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/americans-are-very-friendly-and-very-suspicious-that-is-what/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

> [Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/just-as-everybody-has-the-vote-including-women-i-think-children/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

> [“When is there some discharge when. There never is.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/when-is-there-some-discharge-when-there-never-is/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

> [There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/there-is-no-such-thing-as-repetition-only-insistance/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

> [I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/i-am-i-because-my-little-dog-knows-me-but-creatively-speaking-the/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

> [How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/how-likely-are-definitions-to-be-pleasurable/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

> [ “What is the answer?" \[ I \[Alice B Toklas\] was silent \] In that case, what is the question?” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/what-is-the-answer-i-alice-b-toklas-was-silent-in-that-case-what-is/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

> [More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/more-and-more-i-like-to-take-a-train-i-understand-why-the-french/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

> [Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/adventure-is-making-the-distant-approach-nearer-but-romance-is-having/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

> [Forensics is eloquence and reduction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/forensics-is-eloquence-and-reduction/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

> [Eating and sleeping are not like loving and breathing. Washing is not like eating and sleeping. Believing is like breathing and loving. Religion can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/eating-and-sleeping-are-not-like-loving-and-breathing-washing-is-not/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

> [I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/i-write-for-myself-and-strangers-the-strangers-dear-readers-are-an/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

> [“A bag which was left and not only taken but turned away was not found. The place was shown to be very like the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/a-bag-which-was-left-and-not-only-taken-but-turned-away-was-not-found/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

> [I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-stein/i-don-t-envisage-collectivism-there-is-no-such-animal-it-is-always/)

[Gertrude Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-stein/)

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