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Believe Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg
- If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.
- If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we…
- To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many…
- Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
- Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.
- I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that,…
- There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
- First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then…
- Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
- There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face.
- We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before…
- The "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift because they don't…
- I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot…
- I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable…
- You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that…
- To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.
- Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has…
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- 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
- Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. — Richard Bach
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing… — Neil Armstrong
- Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind… — Mary Kay Ash
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov