“I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.”
Book 7, Ch. 152.
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“In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.”
Source: New Selected Poems

“Of course not … but I am told it works even if you don't believe in it.”
Reply to a visitor to his home in Tisvilde who asked him if he really believed a horseshoe above his door brought him luck, as quoted in Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (1986) by Abraham Pais, p. 210
In most published accounts of this anecdote such was Bohr's reply to his friend, but in one early account, in The Interaction Between Science and Philosophy (1974) by Samuel Sambursky, p. 357, Bohr was at a friend's house and asked "Do you really believe in this?" to which his friend replied "Oh, I don't believe in it. But I am told it works even if you don't believe in it."
Disputed
Variant: No, but I'm told it works even if you don't believe in it.

Hung Hsiu-chu (2015) cited in " Chu apologizes over Hung turmoil http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2015/10/14/2003630004" on Taipei Times, 14 October 2015

As quoted in The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption (2006) by Clive Foss ISBN 1905204965
Undated

Jackson responding during Q&A on Day 2 of the hearings, or March 22nd https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/03/14/2022/the-nomination-of-ketanji-brown-jackson-to-be-an-associate-justice-of-the-supreme-court-of-the-united-states-day-2, as quoted in "Ketanji Brown Jackson vows to ‘stay in lane’ on Supreme Court: As lawmakers questioned the nominee, Jackson asserted her commitment to neutrality on the bench and defended her history as a judge and public defender." https://www.courthousenews.com/ketanji-brown-jackson-vows-to-stay-in-lane-on-supreme-court/ Courthouse News Service. (March 22, 2022)
Senate confirmation hearings (March 2022)

“I believe what I believe is what makes me what I am”

“There are those who say that seeing is believing. I am telling you that believing is seeing.”
Source: Home with God: In a Life That Never Ends

“I dream big because I believe I am what I think I am”