Not To Believe Quotes

#1. If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.

Bill Nye

#2. Everything's possible when you're seven years old." She sighed. "But then you hit an age where you decide it's cooler not to believe in anything at all. [ ... ] It's called being grown-up.

Allan Frewin Jones

#3. It's impossible not to believe in ghosts, They light up the night sky every time the sun goes down, reminding us that we are never alone.

Dannielle Wicks

#4. Our world is divided into two kinds of people, believers, who don't know why not to believe others and nonbelievers, who don't know why they are not being believed.

Kunal Narayan Uniyal

#5. Faith is not to believe
Or pray that Providence
Will help a chieve
Anything we want,
But to liv e
With confidence
That God will do for us
Everything we need.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#6. Brahmos accept a formless deity who is invisible to the eye. You accept idols who cannot be heard. We acccept the living who can be seen and heard
it's impossible not to believe in them.

Rabindranath Tagore

#7. I think maybe it is better to believe than not to believe. But I couldn't tell you why.

David Gemmell

#8. I choose not to believe in superstitions. On race day, I have plans that I follow. I don't necessarily think about brushing my hair a certain way or doing certain things that make no sense as it relates to my performance.

Mark De Jonge

#9. When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

G.K. Chesterton

#10. In my first year, when I was driving in runs, winning games and making headlines, there was an old man who came to games at Seals Stadium, and one day he called me over, introduced himself and told me not to believe anything written about me or think too much of all the accolades.

Willie McCovey

#11. History is a ghost story. My own childhood has passed into history, and the ghosts I find there are the ghosts of Heroes and dragons and Berserks and witches, and it has become fashionable not to believe in these things anymore. But I believe, for I was there.

Cressida Cowell

#12. To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

Voltaire

#13. If you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what it is that I'm supposed not to believe in, and I've never seen an explanation.

Noam Chomsky

#14. Sometimes life asks us to make more serious choices than whether or not to believe a fairy tale

Chrystal Vaughan

#15. It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.

Joseph Conrad

#16. Read,not to believe, contradict or complement, but to understand.

Debasish Mridha

#17. If we forever treat people like the person they were at their lowest, most despicable moments, how can we expect them not to believe that's who they are, and behave accordingly?

MaryElizabeth Williams

#18. It had indeed been a failure of faith and courage not to wander on through the forest, not to search faithfully for his true mate, not to believe and endure.

Iris Murdoch

#19. This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#20. When question arise
Believe or not to believe
Always believe.

Debasish Mridha

#21. I prefer to say that I believe in people, and people, when given the right encouragement to think for themselves about all the information now available, very often turn out not to believe in God and to lead fulfilled and satisfied - indeed, liberated - lives.

Richard Dawkins

#22. I think when you say to someone You are fool not to believe in evolution or a fool to believe the universe is 6000 years old. I think that gets translated as You are a fool to think that your daughter who died in a car accident is really in heaven with god.

Sam Harris

#23. People don't so much believe in God as that they choose not to believe in nothing.

Rafael Yglesias

#24. People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

Charles Fort

#25. The main thing is that I believe myself when I lie. The hardest thing in life is to live and not lie ... and ... and not to believe your own lies, yes, yes, that's it precisely!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#26. I had to learn to dismiss people who would criticize me based on nothing, but I also had to learn not to believe the people who would compliment me and think I was great based on nothing. And that led me to have a very, very strong sense of myself and my strengths.

Justin Trudeau

#27. I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of 'living a lie'. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.

Lynn Barber

#28. Grandpa Eli had often told me that the real truth was seldom what we thought it was. "Most of the time," he said,"people choose to believe a story because it fills their need. At other times, they're afrad not to believe it. Then right or wrong, that belief becomes their truty.

Deborah Epperson

#29. For when one considers the universe, can anyone be so simple-minded as not to believe that the Divine is present in everything, pervading, embracing and penetrating it?

Gregory Of Nyssa

#30. This is the power of the powerful to define, to structure, to say, 'This is the way the world works.' It's enormous power. Among the powers of the weak, I think the first one is the power not to believe the powerful.

Elizabeth Janeway

#31. How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.

Isabel Allende

#32. I do think it's often a mistake to call them climate skeptics. I think they're deniers, just as I think president Ahmadinejad of iran who claims not to believe that the Holocaust occurred.

Thomas Schelling

#33. The best way to combat bad ideas is not to believe in them.

Marty Rubin

#34. She'd been let down enough times to know not to believe in fairy tales.

Michelle Madow

#35. What right has a man to say he has a soul if he does not feel it, or that there is a God if he does not see Him? If there is a God we must see Him, if there is a soul we must perceive it; otherwise it is better not to believe. It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.

Swami Vivekananda

#36. Trying not to believe things when in your heart you are almost sure they are true, is as bad for the temper as anything I know.

E. Nesbit

#37. Jace looked as if she had slapped him. "Why are you determined not to believe us?"
"Because she loves you," said Valentine.
Clary felt the blood drain out of her face.

Cassandra Clare

#38. You have the right to believe or not believe these voices and the right not to take what they say personally. We have a choice whether or not to believe the voices we hear within our own minds,

Miguel Ruiz

#39. I happen not to believe that God is so mean-spirited that He would give you a soulmate, take her away, and then insist that you spend the rest of your life battling the empty place inside. Love is God's greatest gift.

Hope Ramsay

#40. To believe or not to believe, is a problem. To leave or to conceive is another problem. To ascertain and to achieve is to solve the problem.

A. Saleh

#41. I always brought up my children not to believe in Mothers Day gifts, and now I regret it.

Lauren Bacall

#42. I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion.

Geoffrey Beene

#43. Richard did not believe in angels, he never had. He was damned if he was going to start now. Still, it was much easier not to believe in something when it was not actually looking directly at you and saying your name.

Neil Gaiman

#44. It is not miracles that bring a realist to faith. A true realist, if he is not a believer, will always find in himself the strength and ability not to believe in miracles as well, and if a miracle stands before him as an irrefutable fact, he will sooner doubt his own senses than admit the fact.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#45. No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.

Margaret Mead

#46. The hardest thing is to go on living and not to believe in one's own lies.

Albert Camus

#47. Pop was a devout Roman Catholic; I'm a lapsed Catholic. I'm not the village atheist, but I exert my right not to believe, and I doubt I would have been very public about that were he still alive, simply just so as not to hurt his feelings.

Christopher Buckley

#48. Science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible not to believe in God

Steven Weinberg

#49. Voltaire, To believe in God is impossible; but not to believe is absurd.

Terryl L. Givens

#50. "Then what do you see?" asked Irene, who perceived at once that for her not to believe him was at least as bad as for him not to believe her.

George MacDonald

#51. Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.

Harold Bloom

#52. Do you think the Roman soldiers thought he was the Son of God or just some goofball who got nailed to the cross? In 2000 years, we've probably made somebody who is the equivalent of Elvis into God, so I see no reason why not to believe that in 2000 years Elvis will be God.

Geoffrey Fieger

#53. One of the underlying things I like to do in books, is just say, stop and look at this for a moment. Not that you've got to believe that Jesus was real, or not to believe in God, but the belief that it isn't just happenstance.

Dean Koontz

#54. Adults are taught not to believe anything unless it is boring or ugly.

Katherine Rundell

#55. The greatest thing is not to believe in Santa Claus; it is to be Santa Claus.

Pat Boone

#56. There are good reasons why everybody should heed politicians' advise not to believe the media. One of the best is that the media report what politicians say.

Russell Baker

#57. In all the years when I did not know what to believe in and therefore preferred to leave all beliefs alone, whenever I came to a place where living water welled up, blessedly cold and sweet and pure, from the earth's dark bosom, I felt that after all it must be wrong not to believe in anything.

Sigrid Undset

#58. Stress is a byproduct of subconscious beliefs you have about the world. You can't choose not to believe something. You believe it because you think it's true. To eliminate stress, you must learn to challenge these beliefs so that you see them differently.

Andrew J. Bernstein

#59. Science is not there for you to cherry pick ... You can decide whether or not to believe in it but that doesn't change the reality of an emergent scientific truth.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#60. To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#61. As an experimental psychologist, I have been trained not to believe anything unless it can be demonstrated in the laboratory on rats or sophomores.

Steven Pinker

#62. Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#63. I'm considering whether or not to believe you. I need to run an algorithm on this."
"That's not funny."
"You might be trying to trick me into sleeping with you.

Jessica Park

#64. If the God of Christianity exists, the evidence for His existence is abundant and plain so that it is both unscientific and sinful not to believe in Him.

Cornelius Van Til

#65. I'm Cancer and Gemini cusp, so I read both and pick the one I like best. I read horoscopes but claim not to believe any of it.

Joe Dempsie

#66. If you take passionate interest in a subject, it is hard not to believe yourself specially equipped for it.

Ethel Smyth

#67. The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you.

John Owen

#68. They don't know. It's not their fault. What are they supposed to do when they've been told their whole lives not to believe in fairy tales?

Heather O'Neill

#69. Let's stop blaming our unbelief on the pastor we once had, on our childhood, on circumstances, or on anything else. There is no excuse for us not to believe in the Lord.

Jim Cymbala

#70. Wherever you go you will find people lying to you, and as your awareness grows, you will notice that you also lie to yourself. Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves. You have to trust yourself and choose to believe or not to believe what someone says to you.

Miguel Ruiz

#71. When we believe, trust, and take direction from our fears, we never see our inner light. When we choose not to believe, that light seems, like magic, to appear.

Charles F. Glassman

#72. A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is 'merely relative,' is asking you not to believe him. So don't.

Roger Scruton

#73. Unbelief is as much of a choice as belief is. What makes it in many ways more appealing is that whereas to believe in something requires some measure of understanding and effort, not to believe doesn't require much of anything at all.

Frederick Buechner

#74. It was okay to believe in things that others didn't believe in. It was okay not to believe, too.

Therese Walsh

#75. Fairy tales are just true stories that humans have chosen not to believe in any more. Besides, this is Myths and Legends where dreams and nightmares come to life.

Stacie Simpson

#76. Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.

Nawal El Saadawi

#77. When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say "Why?", say "Why not?

Billie Jean King

#78. To think because you have been "saved" that you are now sane is insanity. God doesn't fix the mind. He only gives you opportunities to have moments of clarity. It is your job to climb the mountain and see above the clouds for yourself, not to believe the congregation's interpretation of the view.

Shannon L. Alder

#79. It is through fiction that we learn not to believe everything we read in print.

Ann Mullen

#80. He knew very well that his memory detested him, that it did nothing but slander him; therefore he tried not to believe it and to be more lenient toward his own life. But that didn't help: he took no pleasure in looking back, and he did it as seldom as possible.

Milan Kundera

#81. If the church is to survive as a place where head and heart are equal partners in faith, then we will need to commit ourselves once again not to the worship of Christ, but to the imitation of Jesus. His invitation was not to believe, but to follow. (p. 145)

Robin R. Meyers

#82. Christianity tells us we have free will. God has provided man with a choice whether to believe in Him or not. If God's existence were logically inescapable, there would be no free will to choose whether or not to believe in Him.

Stephen McAndrew

#83. I defy any newcomer not to believe his or her publicity at the very beginning. It's only natural. At least it was for me.

Susan Hayward

#84. I don't say that I don't believe in God because that implies that there is a God for me not to believe in.

Douglas Adams

#85. People like to separate storytelling which is not fact from history which is fact. They do this so that they know what to believe and what not to believe.

Jeanette Winterson

#86. Among all these passionate hearts and all these undoubting minds there was one skeptic. How did he happen to be there? From juxtaposition. The name of this skeptic was Grantaire, and he usually signed with this rebus: R. Grantaire was a man who took good care not to believe in anything.

Victor Hugo

#87. O hard-believing love, how strange it seems!
Not to believe, and yet too credulous:
Thy weal and woe are both of them extremes;
Despair and hope make thee ridiculous:
The one doth flatter thee in thoughts unlikely,
In likely thoughts the other kills thee quickly.

William Shakespeare

#88. She stroked my hair and told me I was beautiful, but I was old enough by then to know not to believe it anymore.

Sarah Dessen

#89. It felt like lying, only better, because he couldn't be caught, and he couldn't be caught because there was nothing to verify it against. Immersed in the flow of bullshit, they had no reason, or time, not to believe him.

Aleksandar Hemon

#90. One of the first rules of an interview was not to believe in tears unless the snot was flowing.

Marc Cameron

#91. It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that).

Richard Dawkins

#92. It is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.

Stanislaw Lem

#93. Spaniards and Americans are not like Europeans, they are not like Orientals, they have something in common, that is they do not need religion or mysticism not to believe in reality as all the world knows it, not even when they see it.

Gertrude Stein

#94. "Hello" is pseudoscience. The only smart way to read it is not to believe in it, not to trust it, or to put yourself in it and imagine what's out there that you haven't been told or seen.

Aleksandra Mir

#95. Not to believe in the possibility of permanent peace is to disbelieve in the Godliness of human nature.

Mahatma Gandhi

#96. When someone gives me three reasons instead of one, I'm inclined not to believe any of them.

Margaret Millar

#97. To admit that some people literally have no conscience is not technically the same as saying that some human beings are evil, but it is disturbingly close. And good people want very much not to believe in the personification of evil.

Martha Stout

#98. It does not have to be that the greatest generation is behind us. It does not have to be that our children will have a lower standard of living. It will be that way if we choose to believe that. I choose not to believe that.

Glenn Beck

#99. We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God. You've probably heard the expression 'I believe in God, just not organized religion'. I don't think people would say that if the church truly lived like we are called to live.

Francis Chan

#100. We have the most religious freedom of any country in the world, including the freedom not to believe.

William J. Clinton