Believe Quotes
It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.
But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest animal, be trusted when it draws such grand conclusions?
I do not believe, as we shall presently see, that all our dogs have descended from any one wild species; but, in the case of some other domestic races, there is presumptive, or even strong, evidence in favour of this view.
I believe man . . . in the same predicament with other animals.
I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number.
Whoever is led to believe that species are mutable will do good service by conscientiously expressing his conviction; for only thus can the load of prejudice by which this subject is overwhelmed be removed.
But hereditary diseases and some other facts make me believe that the rule has a wider extension, and that, when there is no apparent reason why a peculiarity should appear at any particular age, yet it does tend to appear in the offspring at the same period at which it first appeared in the parent. I believe this rule to be of the highest importance in explaining the laws of embryology.
He who is not content to look, like a savage, at the phenomena of nature as disconnected, cannot any longer believe that man is the work of a separate act of creation ... Man is the co-descendant with other mammals of a common progenitor.
I believe there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for the truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the same nature as the instinct of virtue, & that our having such an instinct is reason enough for scientific researches without any practical results ever ensuing from them.
I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.
Promises are worse than lies. You don't just make them believe, you also make them hope.
Wise girls kiss but never love,Listen but never believe,And leave before they are left.
I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror.
From such trivia, I believe my soul was born.
By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.
My faith is in the unknown, in all that we do not understand by reason; I believe that what is beyond our comprehension is a simple fact in other dimensions, and that in the realm of the unknown there is an infinite power for good.
The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
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