Quotes about believer
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“It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts.”
Source: Angels & Demons
“I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoy the process.”
Source: Mine Till Midnight
“I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.”
“Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.”
Source: Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
Source: The Wolf Gift
Letter to Besso's family (March 1955) following the death of Michele Besso, as quoted in Disturbing the Universe (1979) by Freeman Dyson Ch. 17 "A Distant Mirror", p. 193
Sometimes misquoted as "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
1950s
Variant: "He has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. For us believing physicists, the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubborn illusion." Quoted in Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson (2008), p. 540 http://books.google.com/books?id=cdxWNE7NY6QC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA540#v=onepage&q&f=false.
Variant: "Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That signifies nothing. For us believing physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." Quoted in Albert Einstein: The Miracle Mind by Tabatha Yeatts (2007), p. 116 http://books.google.com/books?id=XiyyVYvQBKQC&lpg=PP1&pg=PT114#v=onepage&q&f=false.
Variant: "In quitting this strange world he has once again preceded me by a little. That doesn't mean anything. For those of us who believe in physics, this separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however tenacious." Quoted in The Structure of Physics by Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1985), p. 288 http://books.google.com/books?id=DeexONN0zDgC&lpg=PR2&pg=PA288#v=onepage&q&f=false.
Variant: "Now he has departed a little ahead of me from this quaint world. This means nothing. For us faithful physicists, the separation between past, present, and future has only the meaning of an illusion, though a persistent one." Quoted in Einstein and Religion by Max Jammer (2002), p. 161 http://books.google.com/books?id=TnCc1f1C25IC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA161#v=onepage&q&f=false.
Variant: "Now he has preceded me by a little bit in his departure from this strange world as well. This means nothing. For those of us who believe in physics, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however tenacious this illusion may be." Quoted in Einstein: A Biography by Jürgen Neff (2007), p. 402 http://books.google.com/books?id=B8K6n177ZwcC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA402#v=onepage&q&f=false
“Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson”
Source: The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
Source: House of Leaves
Source: Reviewing Blueprints: Solving the Mystery of Evolution (1989) by Maitland A. Edey and Donald C. Johanson
Source: Last sentence expanded upon in "Ignorance is No Crime" (2001) (see below)
Context: So to the book's provocation, the statement that nearly half the people in the United States don't believe in evolution. Not just any people but powerful people, people who should know better, people with too much influence over educational policy. We are not talking about Darwin's particular theory of natural selection. It is still (just) possible for a biologist to doubt its importance, and a few claim to. No, we are here talking about the fact of evolution itself, a fact that is proved utterly beyond reasonable doubt. To claim equal time for creation science in biology classes is about as sensible as to claim equal time for the flat-earth theory in astronomy classes. Or, as someone has pointed out, you might as well claim equal time in sex education classes for the stork theory. It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that).
If that gives you offence, I'm sorry. You are probably not stupid, insane or wicked; and ignorance is no crime in a country with strong local traditions of interference in the freedom of biology educators to teach the central theorem of their subject.
“I was foolish because I believed in you. You are a fool because you believe in yourself!”
Source: In Search of Satisfaction
“I am suspicious of all the things that the average people believes.”
“I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty.”
Source: The Magnificent Defeat (1966)
Source: You Can Heal Your Life
“No true hero ever believes that they are one.”
Source: UnSouled
“Bonnie, believe in me. I’ll save you.
I remember how to fly.”
Source: Nightfall
Statement before his fight with George Foreman (31 March 1973)
“Your problem, Werner,” says Frederick, “is that you still believe you own your life.”
Source: All the Light We Cannot See
“I did not say it was true, only that I believe it.”
Source: Hellboy, Vol. 7: The Troll Witch and Others
“I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.”
Source: The 39 Steps
“Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true… we call it history.”
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
Source: The Tao of Pooh
“How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.”
Source: Kingdom of the Golden Dragon
Source: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 41 (p. 268)
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“I do believe in shooting the messenger.
You know why? Because it sends a message.”
Source: The Awakening / The Struggle
“Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.”
Source: A Witch's Notebook: Lessons in Witchcraft
Source: Black Skin, White Masks
“I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie.”
Source: The Queen of Attolia
Source: Devil in Winter
"Credo" at his official website http://robertfulghum.com/index.php/fulghumweb/credo/; this may be partly influenced by remarks of Albert Einstein in "What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck" The Saturday Evening Post (26 October 1929): I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
On Alexander the Great, p. 312
Source: The Persian Boy (1972)
Context: It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that. How many have tried, because of him? Not only those I have seen; there will be men to come. Those who look in mankind only for their own littleness, and make them believe in that, kill more than he ever will in all his wars.
“No magic. I do believe you might have taken it all with you when you went away.”
Source: Solipsist
Source: Walden and Other Writings
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.”
Lonely on the Mountain (1980); later quoted in A Trail of Memories : The Quotations Of Louis L'Amour (1988) by Angelique L'Amour
Source: Shadows Linger (1984), Chapter 33, “Juniper: The Encounter” (p. 367)
Context: I do not believe in evil absolute. I have recounted that philosophy in specific in the Annals, and it affects my every observation throughout my tenure as Annalist. I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find the good with one standard and the shadow with another.
Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
“Memories are small prayers to God, if we believed in that sort of thing.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover.”
Source: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 99, p. 330
Context: Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?
Source: Praying God's Word: Breaking Free From Spiritual Strongholds
“Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.”
Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Source: Of Love and Other Demons
“Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.”
Harry Truman at Akron (11 October 1948), Good Old Harry
Context: The title of this book is Our New National Labor Policy, the Taft-Hartley Act and the Next Steps. Get that: "The Next Steps" … They're going even further! … The Republicans favor a minimum wage — the smaller the minimum the better.
Context: Your old friend Congressman Hartley of the Taft Hartley team … has written a book … The title of this book is Our New National Labor Policy, the Taft-Hartley Act and the Next Steps. Get that: "The Next Steps" … They're going even further! … The Republicans favor a minimum wage — the smaller the minimum the better.
Context: Republicans approve of the American farmer, but they are willing to help him go broke. They stand four-square for the American home--but not for housing. They are strong for labor--but they are stronger for restricting labor's rights. They favor minimum wage--the smaller the minimum wage the better. They endorse educational opportunity for all--but they won't spend money for teachers or for schools. They think modern medical care and hospitals are fine--for people who can afford them.... They think American standard of living is a fine thing--so long as it doesn't spread to all the people. And they admire the Government of the United States so much that they would like to buy it. − Harry S. Truman, October 13, 1948, St. Paul, Minnesota, Radio Broadcast.
Source: Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein and the Poet (1983), p. 132
Variant transcription from "Death of a Genius" in Life Magazine: "I cannot accept any concept of God based on the fear of life or the fear of death, or blind faith. I cannot prove to you that there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him I would be a liar."
Context: About God, I cannot accept any concept based on the authority of the Church. As long as I can remember, I have resented mass indoctrination. I do not believe in the fear of life, in the fear of death, in blind faith. I cannot prove to you that there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him, I would be a liar. I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws.