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Believe Quotes
On conviction, faith and holding a belief through doubt.
The quotes gathered here move between technical foresight, early confidence in where computing was headed, and deeply personal conviction about politics, work and society's assumptions. For more on faith, see our Faith quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Believe that time is going to help you do what you want.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.
- Sky
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've read that a naked eye can see six thousand stars in the hundred billion galaxies, but I couldn't believe it, what with the sky white with starlight. I saw a million stars with one eye and two million with both.
- Nov 07, 2020
I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.
- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that if creative people are open and generous enough when working with each other, a lot more can be learned and achieved by both parties. That's what it's all about, trying to produce the best work possible on any given project.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always used a great variety of verse forms, especially in my poetry for children. I believe that poetry begins in childhood and that a poet who can remember his own childhood exactly can, and should, communicate to children.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020