Believe Quote by Hal Clement Download Open image “Human beings are prone to believe the things they wish were true.” — Hal Clement ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Believe Human beings Humans Statistics Wish
Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too… — Walter Abish Copy Share Image
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We always have to believe in what is possible in life and not be hindered by history or expectations. — Gareth Southgate Copy Share Image
We are eager to believe that others are flawed because we are eager to believe in what we wish for. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
There is so much one would rather not believe until one has seen for oneself whether it is true. — Selma Lagerlöf Copy Share Image
The more we are committed to believing that something is true, the less likely we are to believe that its opposite is true, even… — Marshall Goldsmith Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, humans have not yet come up with a belief that's worth believing. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The captain, thinking over this event afterward, realized that by his own lifelong standards he had a crew composed entirely of lunatics, with himself… — Hal Clement Copy Share Image
“[H]e was still young enough to think that there was something fundamentally inhuman about thinking more than one step ahead at a time.” — Hal Clement Copy Share Image
Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science. — Hal Clement Copy Share Image
Some things are to hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read. — Hal Clement Copy Share Image
Some things were too hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read. — Hal Clement Copy Share Image
What's the use of a high school education if you can't recall it when needed later on? — Hal Clement Copy Share Image
I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Resist discouragement by speaking His Word over your future. Keep standing. Keep hoping; keep believing because He is working behind the scenes. He's going… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
I can't believe that I'm sitting in meetings with Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Annette Bening. I want to take on that responsibility to… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
There is no such word as item girl in the dictionary. People have created this word and I don't believe that I am an… — Shefali Zariwala Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars, the houses - that's not the American dream. That's the booby prize, in the end. Those are the booby prizes. And if you fall for them - if, when you achieve them, you believe that this… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share
I don't really like too much credit. I know nobody's going to believe this, but I'd rather be able to score goals and nobody… — Bradley Wright-Phillips Copy Share Image
Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
That's why I don't generally talk about endorsements because I don't believe we have to tell people who to vote for. — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image