“I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.”
G. I. Gurdjieff (1866–1949) influential spiritual teacher, Armenian philosopher, composer and writer
All and Everything: Views from the Real World (1973)
Pearls of Wisdom
“I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.”
G. I. Gurdjieff (1866–1949) influential spiritual teacher, Armenian philosopher, composer and writer
All and Everything: Views from the Real World (1973)
Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
“If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you?”
Michael Korda (1933) British writer
Attributed to Korda in The Power of Choice (2007) by Joyce Guccione, p. 52, the earliest occurrence of such phrasing yet located is by Martin Lawrence, in "What Up?" in Upscale : The Successful Black Magazine (February 1993), p. 79: "If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there."
Disputed
Aron Ra (1962) Aron Ra is an atheist activist and the host of the Ra-Men Podcast
Patheos, The Cow http://www.patheos.com/blogs/reasonadvocates/2016/01/22/the-cow/ (January 22, 2016)
“You are what you believe yourself to be.”
Paulo Coelho book The Witch of Portobello
Source: The Witch of Portobello (2007), p. 152.
Context: You are what you believe yourself to be.
Don't be like those people who believe in "positive thinking" and tell themselves that they're loved and strong and capable. You don't need to do that because you know it already. And when you doubt it — which happens, I think, quite often at this stage of evolution — do as I suggested. Instead of trying to prove that you're better than you think, just laugh. Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will be difficult at first, but you'll gradually get used to it. Now go back and meet all those people who think you know everything. Convince yourself that they're right, because we all know everything, it's merely a question of believing.
Believe.
“I was foolish because I believed in you. You are a fool because you believe in yourself!”
J. California Cooper (1931–2014) American playwright, novelist. short story writer
Source: In Search of Satisfaction
“I want you to believe… to believe in things that you cannot.”
Bram Stoker book Dracula
Source: Dracula