Acting Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

“Any person’s behaviour would mutate under such constant scrutiny, such bigoted piety – neighbours watching neighbours, twisting ropes to bind us all.”

— Jessie Burton

As a man believes, so he will act.

— Sam Harris

A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men will at…

— Henry David Thoreau

If anyone proposes to believe, i.e., imagines himself to believe, because many good and upright people living here on the hill have believed, i.e.,…

— Soren Kierkegaard

The moment you introduce a despotism in the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites - and you get in such a position…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“That's how it works: someone important believes in us, loudly and with conviction and against all substantiation, and over time, we begin to believe,…

— Kelly Corrigan

A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.

— Albert Schweitzer

“A man behave according to his belief.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

We all behave as though what we think is true, is true.

— Mark Thomas

And to the degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can come to experience a…

— Erving Goffman

If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him .…

— Henry David Thoreau