Believes Quotes

He who believes that each being has been created as we now see it, must occasionally have felt surprise when he has met with an animal having habits and structure not at all in agreement.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

The golden rule is to act fearlessly upon what one believes to be right.

We must have though a man who recognizes the slavery issue as being the living issue of the day; who does not hesitate to declare slavery a wrong, nor to deal with it as such; who believes in the power and duty of Congress to prevent the spread of it.