“If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things.”
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Lewis Carroll241
English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer 1832–1898Related quotes
Terry Pratchett book The Wee Free Men
Variant: Now... if you trust in yourself... and believe in your dreams... and follow your star... you'll still get beaten by people who spenttime working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy. Goodbye.
Source: The Wee Free Men
“If you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you. Is that a bargain?”
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
Ray Comfort (1949) New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist
God doesn't believe in atheists (2002)
Richard Hamming (1915–1998) American mathematician and information theorist
You and Your Research (1986)
Context: Most people like to believe something is or is not true. Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well. They believe the theory enough to go ahead; they doubt it enough to notice the errors and faults so they can step forward and create the new replacement theory. If you believe too much you'll never notice the flaws; if you doubt too much you won't get started. It requires a lovely balance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
Context: I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment.
“If you have just one person believe in you, you'll always find your way”
Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer
Source: Someone Like You
Pope Urban VIII (1568–1644) Pope
Pope Urban VIII on Private Revelation http://www.medjugorje.org/purban.htm (2001). <br class="br">Whether or not Urban VIII said this is debated. He did make a public statement about private revelations and their dissemination in the Catholic Church in his Constitution, Sanctissimus Dominus Noster of 1625-03-13. <br class="br">Misattributed quotes