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Believing Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
- The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself,…
- Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by…
- A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is assured…
- A man lives by believing something.
More Believing Quotes
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we… — Kate Adie
- A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself. — Theodor Adorno
- He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology… — Theodor Adorno
- There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews. — Bjork
- The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism. — H. P. Blavatsky
- A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years, but that's… — Jo Brand
- Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that… — Julie Burchill