Cynic Quote by Marcus Aurelius

What we really believe is what we manifest. What we believe, we see.

— Byron Katie

It is not a slight thing, gentlemen, to force a man to say what he is, or what he believes himself to be; for…

— Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

— George Bernard Shaw

That which we manifest is before us.

— Garth Stein

It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.

— Anonymous

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

— William Feather

“That our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people desire…

— Marcel Proust

“we must be persuaded not only that as he once formed the world, so he sustains it by his boundless power, governs it by…

— John Calvin

By proving contraries, truth is made manifest.

— Joseph Smith, Jr

“And as long as it is so believed, Procurator, and as long as we of Earth are treated as pariahs, you are going to…

— Isaac Asimov

“When has any man ever been content with what he has? When has any tyrant said to himself, 'This is enough'?”

— Brandon Sanderson

“This false epistemology, however, has also led to disastrous consequences. The theory that truth is manifest—that it is there for everyone to see, if…

— Karl Popper