Quotes about believer
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“I'll believe it if I see it" for dogs translates to "I'll believe it if I smell it." So don't bother yelling at them; it's the energy and scent they pay attention to, not your words.”

Cesar Millan (1969) Mexican - American dog trainer and television personality

Dogs

“There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory function, and not much more - that dreams are the psyche's way of taking a good dump every now and then.”

Stephen King book The Stand

Source: The Stand

Dreams, Way

“I don't know, maybe we're always looking for the right place, maybe it's within reach, but
we don't recognize it. Maybe to recognize it, we have to believe in it.”

Umberto Eco book Foucault's Pendulum

Source: Foucault's Pendulum

“There is one grand lie -
that we are limited.
The only limits we have
are the limits we believe.”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

Lie

“I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

Source: To Love This Life: Quotations By Helen Keller

Soul

“When the stakes are this high- when calling God by the right name can make the difference between eternal happiness and eternal suffering, it is impossible to respect the beliefs of others who don't believe as you do.”

Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist

God, Happiness, Suffering

“My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour.”

Jim Butcher book Fool Moon

Source: Fool Moon

People, Heart

“It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.”

Sam Harris Letter to a Christian Nation

Source: Letter to a Christian Nation

People, Faith, Time

“We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes. You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move one, pet.”

Lauren Myracle book Let It Snow

Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

Change

“Believe me, Being gay is not a choice. Noone would choose to make life harder than it has to be.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

Life

“For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?”

Bell Hooks (1952) American author, feminist, and social activist

People, Forgiveness, Time

“The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our ‘natural’ condition.”

Bell Hooks (1952) American author, feminist, and social activist

Love, Nature

“For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.”

Rabih Alameddine (1959) Lebanese-American painter and writer.

Source: I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters

“I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.”

Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990) British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer

Reality, Reading, Personality

“Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!”

Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet

Age, Stupidity, Future

“I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Happiness, Hope

“I'm a firm believer that every person, young or old, has at least one good story to tell.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Personality

“But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

God, World, Soul, Understanding

“The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.”

Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter

Second Series, p. 186
Life Is Worth Living (1951–1957)

People

“Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters.”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Source: The Godfather

Life, Beauty

“I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing.”

Tori Amos (1963) American singer

People, Thinking

“I can’t believe I was ever stupid enough to trust Noir. Come to the dark side. We have cookies. (Zeth)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dream Warrior

Stupidity

“either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.”

Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist

Source: Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

“You are not trying to find the answer to a question, you are simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe; That everyone is evil. ” Chantal”

Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym

Question, Evil

“If one believed in angels one would feel that they must love us best when we are asleep and cannot hurt each other; and what a mercy it is that once in every twenty-four hours we are too utterly weary to go on being unkind.”

Elizabeth von Arnim (1866–1941) Australian writer

Source: The Solitary Summer

Love, Angels, Feeling, Hurt

“I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

School

“People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.”

George Bernard Shaw Mrs. Warren's Profession

Vivie, Act II
Source: 1890s, Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893)

People, World

“In the darkest hours we must believe in ourselves.”

Terry Goodkind Faith of the Fallen

Source: Faith of the Fallen

“Are you telling me you think Ranger's a superhero?'
Think about it. We don't know where he lives. We don't know anything about him.'
Superheroes are make-believe.'
Oh yeah?' Lula said. 'What about God?”

Janet Evanovich Three to Get Deadly

Source: Three to Get Deadly

God, Thinking

“They weren't lying. They firmly believed it all. Which doesn't change the facts.”

Andrzej Sapkowski book The Last Wish

Source: The Last Wish

Lying, Change

“I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.”

Katherine Dunn (1945–2016) American novelist, journalist, poet

Age

“My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

Men

“You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.”

Queen Latifah (1970) American musician and actress

“I believe that true identity is found… in creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one loses oneself. Woman can best refind herself in some kind of creative activity of her own.”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001) American aviator and author

Spring

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

Love, Way, Understanding, Thinking

“I don't believe in God, but I miss him.”

Julian Barnes (1946) English writer

God

“Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder--no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.”

Candace Bushnell Lipstick Jungle

Source: Lipstick Jungle

“People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to”

Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990) English journalist, author, media personality, and satirist

People

“You’re not necessarily supposed to believe it…You’re just supposed to believe in it.”

Daniel Wallace book Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions

Source: Big Fish

“This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.”

Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) Welsh poet and writer

Suffering

“Human females, they're kind of crazy during this time aren't they?

If you chose to believe the stories written by male writers.

They heard a bang and thump from the kitchen. Followed by Meg yelling at something.

That many males can't be wrong.”

Anne Bishop book Murder of Crows

Source: Murder of Crows

Time

“Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding.”

Richard Bach book Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)

Understanding

“It is a paradox. Life is that way. God designed it that way. I believe I met him once. He was full of mischief.”

Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden

Source: Black Blood

Life, God, Way

“People often ask me where I stand politically. It's not that I disagree with Bush's economic policy or his foreign policy, it's that I believe he was a child of Satan sent here to destroy the planet Earth. Little to the left.”

Bill Hicks (1961–1994) American comedian

Shock and Awe (2003)

People

“There doesn't need to be a God for me. There's something in people that's spiritual, that's godlike. I don't feel like doing things just because people say things, but I also don't really know if it's better to just not believe in anything, either.”

Angelina Jolie (1975) American actress, film director, and screenwriter

God, People, Feeling

“I know what it's like when the things you believe make you feel like you're on the outside looking in.”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Source: Change of Heart

Feeling

“A. J. nods out of politeness, but he doesn’t believe in random acts. He is a reader, and what he believes in is narrative construction. If a gun appears in act one, that gun had better go off by act three.”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Appearance

“Believe it!!!" Naruto yelled.”

Masashi Kishimoto book Naruto

“We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

God, Star, Learning

“I don't believe in fate," she said at last. "But I do believe in… loopholes. I think a lot of what keeps the world going is the result of accidents — happy or otherwise — and taking advantage of these.”

Robin McKinley book Sunshine

Source: Sunshine

Fate, Happiness, World, Thinking

“Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.”

Nicholas Sparks book Nights in Rodanthe

Source: Nights in Rodanthe

People, Silence

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”

Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …

"Science Past, Science Future" (1975) p. 208
General sources

Education

“This I believe: That the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Variant: And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.
Source: East of Eden (1952)
Context: And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.
Context: Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in art, in music, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.
And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man. By disparagement, by starvation, by repressions, forced direction, and the stunning blows of conditioning, the free, roving mind is being pursued, roped, blunted, drugged. It is a sad suicidal course our species seems to have taken.
And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about. I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for it is the one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost.

World, Freedom, Fight