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Believe Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying is not characteristic…
- To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our…
- Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that…
- However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human…
- There is need for some kind of make-believe in order to face death unflinchingly. To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on…
- Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your…
- The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new; nor…
- The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
- When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
- The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned up in the…
- To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves…
More Believe Quotes
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- We tend to become what the most important person in our life thinks we will become. Think the best, believe the best,… — John C. Maxwell
- A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds.... — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it for the good of many, give it to all. — Swami Vivekananda