Variant: I can believe anything provided it is incredible.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“If there's one thing I believe, its that I don't know anything and anything can happen”
“There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.”
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2 (2013), p. 136
“We are all quite capable of believing in anything as long as it's improbable.”
“I believe if I were in that situation, God would provide a way to do the right thing righteously.”
TV appearances
Context: Eddie Izzard: What if someone comes to you in the middle of the Second World War and says, "Do you have any Jewish people in your house?" and you do have them. That would be a lie. That would be disrespectful to Hitler.
Christine O'Donnell: I believe if I were in that situation, God would provide a way to do the right thing righteously. I believe that!
Bill Maher: God is not there. Hitler's there and you're there.
Christine O'Donnell: You never have to practice deception. God always provides a way out.
You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think (2009)
“I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.”
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 3
“I don't believe in anything you have to believe in.”
Reported by Steve Pinker, " I am Steve Pinker, a cognitive psychologist at Harvard. Ask me anything. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1a67x4/i_am_steve_pinker_a_cognitive_psychologist_at/c8uiccn", Reddit.com (March 12, 2013).
Other
From An Insight, An Idea with Tim Berners-Lee http://www.weforum.org/sessions/summary/insight-idea-tim-berners-lee at 27:27 (25 January 2013)
Context: When somebody has learned how to program a computer … You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine.
“Believe in yourself and you can accomplish anything.”
Wake-up words on Vine https://vine.co/v/OrYTHrW7hWP, 2014
