Believed - Quotes
I try to believe like I believed when I was five... when my heart told me everything I needed to know.
[You] could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.
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.
There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.
If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant; the rapist who was sexually abused as a child; the kidnapper who truly believed he was saving a life. And just because you break the law doesn`t mean you have intentionally crossed the line into evil. Sometimes the line creeps up on you, and before you know it, you`re standing on the other side.
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties.
Let the spell break a hundred-and-first time
that has broken a hundred: I dismiss you yet again
for ever, if you believed I still held you dear,
and believed one more dismissal stood in line.
Every generation of humans believed it had all the answers it needed, except for a few mysteries they assumed would be solved at any moment. And they all believed their ancestors were simplistic and deluded. What are the odds that you are the first generation of humans who will understands reality?
The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.