Famous Quotes & Sayings

I've always subscribed to the belief that if you put a winning product on the floor, the fans will come. We think that will happen here. We believe we are in a position to get an impact player.

I've been around long enough to know it can be done. If I don't have that belief, what's the point of me going?

Richard Dawkins

Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.

Tryon Edwards

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

Martin Amis

My belief is that everything that's written about you is actually secondary showbiz nonsense, and you shouldn't take any notice of it.

Pierre Beaumarchais

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Richard Bach

Thought plus belief equals manifestation.

Thomas Nagel

Perhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us.

Thomas Paine

In Deism our reason and our belief are happily united.

Thomas Huxley

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

Thomas Huxley

My belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was governed and guided by the love of some ethical ideal.

Robert McNamara

Belief and seeing are both often wrong,

Robert M. Hutchins

Too few have the courage of my convictions.

Tori Amos

And maybe she had certain beliefs that if you love somebody, [you're] gonna like them too. And that isn't necessarily true.

Richard Dawkins

False beliefs can be every bit as consoling as true ones, right up until the moment of disillusionment.

Wallace Stevens

It is the belief and not the god that counts.

William Blake

As we are, so we see.

Werner Erhard

Don't change beliefs. Transform the believer.

Wallace Stegner

No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide.

Wallace Stevens

The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.

Salman Rushdie

Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.

Thomas Pynchon

My belief is that 'recluse' is a code word generated by journalists ... meaning, 'doesn't like to talk to reporters'.

Jeff Tweedy

I'm very, very suspicious of anybody that finds a belief system that they feel can explain it all, for themselves or for anybody else.

Jean M. Auel

They stared at each other, wanting each other, drawn to each other, but their silent shout of love went unheard in the roar of misunderstanding, and the clatter of culturally ingrained beliefs.

Hillary Clinton

I also learned that a person was not necessarily bad just because you did not agree with him, and that if you believed in something, you had better be prepared to defend it.

Ezra Klein

One of my big beliefs about Washington is that we highly overstate the power of individuals and highly underrate seeing Washington as a system, in general, but, in particular, we highly underrate the power of Congress,

Goldie Hawn

If you have a sense of yourself, your mission, your belief system, those things will lead you to success

Friedrich Nietzsche

History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

Fanny Burney

... there's nothing but quarreling with the women; it's my belief they like it better than victuals and drink.

Justin Baldoni

I've always been so curious about death. With my personal beliefs as a Baha'i, we believe that birth and death are very similar and that we're here on this Earth to develop all of the things we can't see.

Les Brown

Sometimes you've got to believe in someone else's belief in you until your belief kicks in.

Sometimes, impossibility isn't about defying reason, but simply lack of willingness to believe in otherwise.