Believing Quotes
1583 quotes by 1192 authors
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Science can have a purifying effect on religion, freeing it from beliefs of a pre-scientific age and helping us to a truer conception of God.…
— Nevill Francis Mott
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I do not know when, but I know that many have come in this century to develop arts and sciences, sow the seeds of a…
— Giordano Bruno
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The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be…
— George Orwell
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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin…
— W. Clement Stone
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He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.
— George Santayana
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Believe you can do it. Believing something can be done puts your mind to work for you and helps you find ways to do it.
— George Shinn
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But there is only one person I blame for getting shafted, and that's myself. I went into the deal which I thought would secure the…
— Trevor Baylis
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In the unspoilt state of innocent childhood, practically every human being has a natural and direct feeling for the existence of God Almighty. But as…
— Nirmala Srivastava
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A man who knows that he is saved by believing in Christ does not, when he is baptized, lift his baptism into a saving ordinance.…
— Charles Spurgeon
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The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.
— Emile Zola
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The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon seekers, bent on improbable rescues.…
— Phyllis McGinley
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
— Saint Augustine
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More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing, than by believing too much.
— P T Barnum
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Depression, when it's clinical, is not a metaphor. It runs in families, and it's known to respond to medication and to counseling. However truly you…
— Jonathan Franzen
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The soul's true greatness is in loving God and in humbling oneself in His presence, completely forgetting oneself and believing oneself to be nothing; because…
— Mary Faustina Kowalska
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That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as mysterious…
— Chris Abani
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People put limitations on their creativity, believing they have to rely on what they know and what they have done.
— Bertrand Piccard
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Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.
— Maureen Dowd
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The history taught in our schools is scandalous. We grew up believing that Columbus actually discovered America. We still celebrate Columbus Day. Columbus was after…
— Woody Harrelson
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