Believes Quotes

At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.

Shackled heart, free spirit. Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said that once. But no one believes me unless he already knows.

A man who wills, commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.

No victor believes in chance.

Every man gives his life for what he believes ... one life is all we have to live and we live it according to what we believe.

When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

I'm just a girl, With a dream that got the best of me, In a world that believes fame is everything.

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.