Quotes about believer
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“Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life.”
“Calvin: But for my own example, I'd never believe one little kid could have so much brains!
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Source: The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes
“Real dialogue isn’t about talking to people who believe the same things as you.”
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.”
Disputed
“You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.”
Source: How They Met, and Other Stories
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Source: The Throne of Fire
“I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.”
Source: The Eyre Affair
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Source: The Quiet American
Source: The Glass Castle
Source: For One More Day
Source: Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
“And you know, I believed him.
What girl wouldn't?”
Source: Betrayals
“…… When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.”
Source: CliffsNotes on Dumas's The Three Musketeers
"What I Believe" in The Forum 84 (September 1930), p. 139; some of these expressions were also used separately in other Mencken essays.
1930s
Context: I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking.
I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.
I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war upon liberty and the democratic form is as bad as any of the other forms.
I believe that the evidence for immortality is no better than the evidence of witches, and deserves no more respect.
I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech — alike for the humblest man and the mightiest, and in the utmost freedom of conduct that is consistent with living in organized society.
I believe in the capacity of man to conquer his world, and to find out what it is made of, and how it is run.
I believe in the reality of progress.
I —But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.
Source: Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
“What if everything you believe is wrong and you could still be loved and still be forgiven?”
Source: Saving Raphael Santiago
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
"I know that--"
"But you don't," Deanna said, gently cutting her off. "Or if you do, you don't want to see it that way. Your vision, as they say, has become clouded."
Deanna and Theresa Osbourne, Chapter 10, p. 196
Source: 1990s, Message in a Bottle (1998)
Ich glaube an Spinozas Gott, der sich in der gesetzlichen Harmonie des Seienden offenbart, nicht an einen Gott, der sich mit Schicksalen und Handlungen der Menschen abgibt.
24 April 1929 in response to the telegrammed question of New York's Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein: "Do you believe in God? Stop. Answer paid 50 words." Einstein replied in only 27 (German) words. The New York Times 25 April 1929 http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10B1EFC3E54167A93C7AB178FD85F4D8285F9
Similarly, in a letter to Maurice Solovine, he wrote: "I can understand your aversion to the use of the term 'religion' to describe an emotional and psychological attitude which shows itself most clearly in Spinoza... I have not found a better expression than 'religious' for the trust in the rational nature of reality that is, at least to a certain extent, accessible to human reason."
As quoted in Einstein : Science and Religion http://www.einsteinandreligion.com/spinoza.html by Arnold V. Lesikar
1920s
“Reality is that which when you stop believing in it, it doesn't go away.”
VALIS (1981)
Source: I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
essay "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action", in Sister Outsider
“Don't just learn from God's Word, but believe it will change your life.”
Source: Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism
Letters
Source: Letters of David Hume 2 vols
Source: The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
“If you are going to impose your will on the world, you must have control over what you believe.”
Source: The Name of the Wind
Source: The Aleph and Other Stories
The Diary of Anaïs Nin , Volume One 1931-1934
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
“I continue
to believe in miracles. But i know that miracles come to those
who work very hard”
Source: The Gray Wolf Throne
“One way to pick a future is to believe it’s inevitable.”
Source: One
Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
“Who needs make-believe monsters when there are so many real ones.”
Source: The Winter Rose
Source: 11/22/63 (2011), Chapter Final Notes, page 1030,(First Scribner hardcover edition November 2011)
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Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
“Fairy's side note: Even people who don't believe in magic really do.”
Source: My Fair Godmother
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Source: The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Source: I Touch the Earth, the Earth Touches Me
Song lyrics, Knocked Out Loaded (1986), Brownsville Girl (with Sam Shepard)
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Blood Meridian (1985)
Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Context: The judge tilted his great head. The man who believes that the secrets of this world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.
Source: The Marriage Plot
“I believe in intuition and inspiration.”
Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97; also in Transformation : Arts, Communication, Environment (1950) by Harry Holtzman, p. 138. This may be an edited version of some nearly identical quotes from the 1929 Viereck interview below.
1930s
Context: I believe in intuition and inspiration. … At times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason. When the eclipse of 1919 confirmed my intuition, I was not in the least surprised. In fact I would have been astonished had it turned out otherwise. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
“Such is human memory… you forget the truth and believe what makes you feel better.”
Source: The Sword of Summer
“And it doesn’t even matter if it’s true or not. What matters is that I feel it, and believe it.”
Variant: I feel the universe is telling me something. And it doesn't even matter if it's true or not. What matters is that I feel it, and believe it.
Source: Every Day