Quotations
Quotes:
An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
View quotes by Sydney Harris
Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content; and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality
View quotes by Montaigne
The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
View quotes by Eric Hoffer
A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.
View quotes by Theodore H White
All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.
View quotes by Magic Johnson
On her fiance: 'There's nobody who thinks like me or believes in God like me, except him.'
View quotes by Mary J Blige
There's nothing an agnostic can't do if he doesn't know whether he believes in anything or not.
View quotes by Monty Python
By night, an atheist half believes a God
View quotes by Edward Young
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
View quotes by Charles De Gaulle
It is interesting to suppose what might have been if our believes were as radically different as others.
View quotes by Larry Harvey
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
View quotes by James Feibleman
How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.
View quotes by George Bernard Shaw
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
View quotes by Dorothy L Sayers
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.
View quotes by Frank Zappa
A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
View quotes by Christina Stead
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
View quotes by Demosthenes
Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
View quotes by Ben Gurion
A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.
View quotes by Don Fraser
A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually
View quotes by Abba Eban
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
View quotes by Ludwig Erhard
Proverbs:
The More One Knows, The Less One Believes
You Do Well To Believe In God Satan Also Believes And Trembles
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