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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde
As soon as you begin to believe in something, then you can no longer see anything else. The truth you believe in and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
Pema Chodron, The Wisdom of No E
To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.
Lillian Smith
Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.
James Baldwin
We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.
For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.
Anon.
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin Luther
Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.
Patrick Ewing
I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.
Warren Buffett
If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.
George Earle Buckle
All are inclined to believe what they covet, from a lottery-ticket up to a passport to Paradise.
Lord (George Gordon) Byron
We are resolved to protect individual freedom of belief. This freedom must include the child as well as the parent. The freedom for which we stand is not freedom of belief as we please,... not freedom to evade responsibility, ...but freedom to be honest in speech and action, freedom to respect one's own integrity of thought and feeling, freedom to question, to investigate, to try, to understand life and the universe in which life abounds, freedom to search anywhere and everywhere to find the meaning of Being, freedom to experiment with new ways of living that seem better than the old.
Sophia Lyon Fahs, A New Ministry
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
Abraham Lincoln
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death.
Robert Fulghum, The Storyteller'
You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
Ben Stein
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
Soren Kierkegaard
Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.
Robert Wilson
It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.
Wally Amos
To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Sugar Ray Robinson
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Robert A. Heinlein
