“If there's one thing I believe, its that I don't know anything and anything can happen”
Amy Lee (1981) American singer-songwriter and pianist
“As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.”
Variant: I can believe anything provided it is incredible.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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“There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2 (2013), p. 136
“I believe if I were in that situation, God would provide a way to do the right thing righteously.”
Christine O'Donnell (1969) American Tea Party politician and former Republican Party candidate
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.
Ray Comfort (1949) New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist
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.”
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 3
“I don't believe in anything you have to believe in.”
Fran Lebowitz (1950) author and public speaker from the United States
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). <br class="br">Other
Tim Berners-Lee (1955) British computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web
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) <br class="br">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.”
John Basedow TV Health and Fitness Personality
Wake-up words on Vine https://vine.co/v/OrYTHrW7hWP, 2014