Believed Quotes

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A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed. — Aristotle
If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed in polygamy; that… — Robert Green Ingersoll
When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain… — William James
How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearance of trees and automobiles, and people with a… — Duane Michals
Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our nation, we would need dramatic change from time to time. Well, my fellow citizens,… — William J. Clinton
Rebut the negative, and the opposing campaign has not merely lost a skirmish, it has suffered almost irreparable damage. An effective rebuttal makes it hard… — Dick Morris
I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars. — Johnny Weissmuller
The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed. — Adolf Hitler
Who travels far will often see things Far removed from what was believed as Truth. — Hermann Hesse
And all along I believed I would find you. Time has brought your heart to me. I have loved you for a thousand years. I'll… — Christina Perri
For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is… — Edward Kennedy
The cavalry, in particular, were not friendly to the aeroplane, which it was believed, would frighten the horses. — Walter Alexander Raleigh
Nelson Mandela once remarked that he befriended his jailers, those grim, khaki-clad overseers of his decades of hard labor in a limestone quarry, by "exploiting… — Marc Ian Barasch
That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since… — Charles Alexander Eastman
... although many people say it is a terrible onus to be labeled bad as a child, I thought that the opposite must be worse:… — Paula Sharp
Every Warrior of the Light has, at least once, believed he was not a Warrior of the Light. — Paulo Coelho
Do not be too quick to assume your enemy is a savage just because he is your enemy. Perhaps he is your enemy because he… — Thomas Merton
If everyone there just lived their lives and let others do the same, God would be in every moment, in every grain of mustard, in… — Paulo Coelho
The language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired. — Paulo Coelho
Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by the road and… — Jonathan Franzen

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