Humans do have an amazing capacity for believing what they choose – and excluding that which is painful. – Mr. Spock Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘And The Children Shall Lead.’.
We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we’ve been told to behave. – Greg Graffin
Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government. – Gerald F. Lieberman
Prosperity is right. Amen. We prosper to prosper others. We prosper to prosper God’s kingdom, so come believing. – Joseph Prince
It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him. – Jean Baudrillard
When I was younger, humans went to the moon when I was about 4 years old, and I imagined that as I got older and became an adult that traveling in space was going to be fairly common and something that we all did. So I grew up believing that I’ll be an astronaut just like these guys were that were going to the moon. – Andrew J. Feustel
I’m saddened to see that some have been misled into believing that Mr. Disney was something other than a kind, caring man. – Annette Funicello
I never stopped believing in us, and I never felt like I was wanting for anything, except for my father, and that was not going to be. – Billy Crystal
No amount of manifest absurdity… could deter those who wanted to believe from believing. – Bernard Levin
There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I’ve played up to that a bit in interviews. – Bjork
There’s a gap between people knowing what I do and really believing that I still do that – and wondering what it is I really do. – Bill Cosby
Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing. – Michael Shermer
Believing in evolution is believing in the unproved, while believing in Christ is believing in the proven. – Edwin Louis Cole
Religious relativism is not the answer to disagreement between faiths; yet relativism, and a blurring of religious distinctions, all too often result when two deeply believing faith communities engage each other in the public arena on theological issues. – Meir Soloveichik
There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce the general population of America. – Ezra Stiles
Love begets love; and thus the love of Christ displayed upon the cross woos and wins the sinner and binds him repenting to the cross, believing and adoring the matchless depths of a Saviour’s love. – Ellen G. White
It’s believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split. – Naima Adedapo
I grew up believing that I could be the president of the United States. I was told I could be whatever I wanted. – Don Lemon
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. – Franz Kafka
Once we start believing that the apocalypse is coming, the amygdala goes on high alert, filtering out most anything that says otherwise. – Peter Diamandis
The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong. – Marvin Olasky
Just go and keep auditioning and keep trying and keep believing things will turn around, and it always does. – Melissa De Sousa
