Quotes with believed

  • I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it.
  • Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.
  • I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.
  • I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
  • Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have to be seen to be believed.
  • It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.
  • ''One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice,'' said the Queen. ''When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.''
  • Particularly during the late 1960s, a large number of American skyjackers earnestly believed that Fidel Castro's Cuba was an egalitarian, post-racial utopia.
  • We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted.
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  • Paul Valery That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
    Paul Valery
    French poet (1871 - 1945)
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  • Lewis Carroll ''One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice,'' said the Queen. ''When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.''
    Alice in wonderland
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Aesop A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Alexander Chase A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.
    Alexander Chase
    American journalist and editor (1926 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet.
    The Integration of the Personality (1939)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Ezra Pound All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Bill Flores America's history is exemplified in the efforts of the men and women who died for our country. The one thing that they all have in common is their selfless love for our nation and their courage to stand up to protect and defend it. They raised their gaze in the face of conflict, believed in what America could be, and pushed forward.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Barry White As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
    Barry White
    American singer-songwriter, record producer and composer (1944 - 2003)
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  • Ben Shapiro Conservatives are routinely pilloried on television. A&E likely greenlit 'Duck Dynasty' in the first place because executives believed Americans would laugh at the redneck antics of the self-described 'white trash' family.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • William S. Burroughs Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • I. F. Stone Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
    I. F. Stone
    American journalist and writer (1907 - 1989)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no mayor of Washington, D.C., videotaped in flagrant has ever come up with anything as farfetched as U.S. farm policy.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Maxwell Maltz For imagination sets the goal ''picture'' which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of ''will,'' as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Bill de Blasio Going back to high school and college, I believed I would be involved in public service. I literally could not conceptualize anything else.
    Bill de Blasio
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Tacitus Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Aishwarya Rai I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.
    Aishwarya Rai
    Indian actress and model (1973 - )
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  • Woodrow Wilson I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Lord George Byron I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • George Gordon Byron I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
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