Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction
Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.
I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.
Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
Men willingly believe what they wish.
Man is what he believes.
We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what every man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn’t ask ourselves what it says but what it means.
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.”
“I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity.
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true.
We easily believe what we likeT
Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are…the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions.
My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I'm not a sad man, and I don't believe I sadden anyone else.
Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.
You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times.
I now believe that all journeys are ridiculous: the only journey from which you don't always come back empty-handed is the journey inside yourself.
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.
I still can't believe that some pseudocritics continue to accuse me of having murdered tango
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own
If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man
When you think something is beautiful and useful it has to be defended, I believe that the crisis in the teaching of Greek hides a much deeper problem, the crisis of literary teaching in general.
I do not think you learn wisdom just like that, by reading Thucydides and becoming reasonable, but I do believe that if young people came into contact with that period of reflection which is different from our time, but which nevertheless has elements in common, we would think better, in a more measured, more reasonable and more tolerant fashion.
I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.”
Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.
I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality.
People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.
Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.
We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing.
What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.