Believed Quotes

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A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn't believed. — Michel de Montaigne
My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create… — Mae West
Many of us fear that we are not attractive or desirable enough to attract others. We have believed that we are "not enough." Today let's… — Shakti Gawain
Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an… — Isaiah Berlin
Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time." — Henry David Thoreau
My doctors told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother. — Wilma Rudolph
Every time I stepped on the field, I believed my team was going to walk off the winner, somehow, someway. — Roger Staubach
Truth, in its struggles for recognition, passes through four distinct stages. First, we say it is damnable, dangerous, disorderly, and will surely disrupt society. Second,… — Elbert Hubbard
For a long time the objects that mathematicians dealt with were mostly ill-defined; one believed one knew them, but one represented them with the senses… — Henri Poincare
All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart from the uses… — G. Stanley Hall
Every great scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly,… — Louis Agassiz
It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time… — Arthur C. Clarke
For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a… — George Bernard Shaw
PoincarÃ© was a vigorous opponent of the theory that all mathematics can be rewritten in terms of the most elementary notions of classical logic; something… — Eric Temple Bell
I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso. — Diego Rivera
Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself. — Thomas Jefferson
If the resurrection of Jesus cannot be believed except by assenting to the fantastic descriptions included in the Gospels, then Christianity is doomed. For that… — John Shelby Spong
...finally men were saved only through God's son dying for them, and that unless human beings believed this silly, impossible and wicked story they were… — Clarence Darrow
Properly practiced creativity MUST result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and… — William Bernbach
He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For Justice all place… — Robert Green Ingersoll

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