Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American inventor and businessman
The Freethinker (1970), G.W. Foote & Company, Volume 90, p. 147.
Date unknown
“I believe in "intelligence," and I believe also that there are inherited differences in intellectual ability, but I do not believe that intelligence is a simple scalar endowment that can be quanitified by attaching a single figure to it—an I. Q. or the like.”
1970s, Advice to a Young Scientist (1979)
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“I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe.”
Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American inventor and businessman
As quoted in Thomas A. Edison, Benefactor of Mankind : The Romantic Life Story of the World's Greatest Inventor (1931) by Francis Trevelyan Miller, Ch. 25 : Edison's Views on Life — His Philosophy and Religion, p. 293.
1930s
Shirley Abbott (1934)
Source: Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South (1983), p. 45
Rick Perry (1950) 14th and current United States Secretary of Energy
2010-09-11
2010 The Vote: K-12 Education
San Angelo Times
http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2010/sep/11/this-series-examines-important-issues-to-texans/
2010
“I believe in neither a director’s nor a writer’s theatre, but a theatre of intelligent audiences.”
Kenneth Tynan (1927–1980) English theatre critic and writer
Letter to George Devine (10 March 1964), printed in Kenneth Tynan : A Life by Dominic Shellard<!-- Yale University Press, 2003, --> , p. 292
Context: I believe in neither a director’s nor a writer’s theatre, but a theatre of intelligent audiences. I count myself as a member of an intelligent audience, and I wrote to you as such. That you should disagree with me I can understand, but that you should resent my expressing my opinions is something that frankly amazes me. I thought we had outgrown the idea of theatre as a mystic rite born of secret communion between author, director, actors and an empty auditorium.
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
Letter to Winterton C. Curtis (29 August 1922)
1920s and later
Jimmy Kimmel (1967) American talk show host and comedian
Associated Press (January 28, 2003) "Jimmy Kimmel is living it up", The Grand Rapids Press, p. B5.
“Because they believed in my ability, I was able to believe in it as well.”
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Think Big (1996), p. 60
“When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no.”
Max Brooks book World War Z
Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War