Believed Quotes

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Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in… — Phineas Quimby
Disease is the misery of our belief, happiness is the health of our wisdom, so that man's happiness or misery depends on himself. Now, as… — Phineas Quimby
If you no longer believe in the God in whom you believed in before, this comes from the fact that there was something wrong with… — Leo Tolstoy
By 1980, we knew it was time to renew our faith, to strive with all our strength toward the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with… — Ronald Reagan
Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany… — Douglas Hurd
In the 1950s and '60s the [democrat] party included many obviously earnest and thoughtful liberals who supported goals that were in line with and expressions… — Peggy Noonan
He believed that all people existed behind varying layers of armor which, like the archaeological layers of earth itself, reflected the historical events and turbulence… — Gay Talese
Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what is… — Eliot Porter
Where I once believed people were there to be used, I started thinking of other people first. — Josh McDowell
When a husband's story is believed, he begins to suspect his wife. — H. L. Mencken
Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true. — Friedrich Nietzsche
All successful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Malevich, Lissitsky, Kandinsky, Tatlin, Pevsner, Rodchenkoâ€¦ all believed in the social role of artâ€¦ Their works were like hinged doors, connecting activity with activity. Art… — John Berger
As I say so often, â€œObserve and wait.â€ Sometimes you may even find out that what you believed the infant wanted was only your assumption.… — Magda Gerber
I have always believed that hair is a very sure index of character. — Katharine Tynan
Now, as never before, hundreds of millions of men and women-who had formerly believed that stoic resignation in the face of hunger and disease and… — John F. Kennedy
Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning.… — Viktor E. Frankl
One of my main goals in life is to make those that believed in me look extremely brilliant. — Greg Gilbert
I have always believed that on important issues, the leaders must lead. Where the leaders fail to lead, and people are really concerned about it,… — Kofi Annan

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