Top 100 People Believe Quotes
#1. There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.
Neil Gaiman
#2. People believe in God because they don't believe in themselves. They need something else to depend on or to blame instead of taking responsibility for their own shit - crap, excrement, waste, mistakes, faults.
Katja Millay
#3. There are two sides to reality. There is what is, and there is what people believe. Seldom
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#4. When enough people believe something of you, it can distort your view of yourself. We mimic the judgments of others. It would take a very strong person indeed to resist the effects of so much ill will.
Jeff Wheeler
#5. PR guys get paid to make people believe that a pile of shit is an investment in soil fertility. Professional liars."
"Ah!"
Manannan's expression lit with comprehension. "They are politicians?
Kevin Hearne
#6. When people believe they have a good cause, the violence within them bursts forth unrestrained, as if their good angel has given permission for it to escape.
Fuminori Nakamura
#7. It's amazing how lies grow. You start with a small one that seems easy to cover, then you get boxed in and tell another one. Then another. People believe you at first, then they act upon your lies, and you catch yourself wishing you'd simply told the truth.
John Grisham
#8. And so about many other things of the same nature, we are trying to make people believe these things, and we make creeds of them; and thus we continue to do our own will, which is the ground of all sin.
Elias Hicks
#9. She shrugged. "It doesn't matter to Jerusalem," she said. "The people come. The people believe. Then they kill each other, to prove that God loves them.
Neil Gaiman
#10. consensus fallacy - the idea that if many people believe something, some position, or some ideology, it must be true. Consensus
MJ DeMarco
#11. Many people believe the names of In 'n Out and Steak 'n Shake perfectly describe the contrast in bedroom techniques between the coast and the heartland.
Roger Ebert
#12. When will the state of the country be sound? ... When its people believe that the end result of cowardice is more disastrous than that of behaving with integrity.
Naguib Mahfouz
#13. Many people believe that the free market, despite some admitted advantages, is a picture of disorder and chaos. Nothing is "planned," everything is haphazard. Government dictation, on the other hand, seems simple and orderly; decrees are handed down and they are obeyed.
Murray N. Rothbard
#14. A lot of people are listening and most people believe global warming is a problem and they'd like to see it addressed. But governments and the biggest companies in the world don't want to deal with it like they didn't want to deal with the fact that tobacco causes cancer.
John H Richardson
#15. Frank Sinatra said this great thing, that singing isn't about singing in tune, or great technical singing. It's about making people believe in the story you're telling.
Marc Almond
#16. The truth is not simply visible to the naked eyes, not any more. When people believe so much in media reports, history itself may conceal the truth only the chosen ones can see.
Aishah Madadiy
#17. In some way, people believe that if you are permeable, if you are a good listener, you don't have the quality of somebody with a firm attitude. This is what, fundamentally, I got from my mother.
Renzo Piano
#18. I think people believe what they want to believe.
Mitch Albom
#19. To put it simply - you know, a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortune. I believe that you pay for the fortune through the fame. I don't buy into the notion that being famous is somehow a good thing, or an exciting thing, or a wonderful thing.
Evangeline Lilly
#20. The odd thing about tradition is, the longer it's been going, the more people seem to take it seriously - as though sheer passage of time makes something which to begin with was just made up, turns it into what people believe as a fact.
Richard Dawkins
#21. Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing.
Tony Robbins
#22. Tragically, some people believe they are going to heaven when they die just because a few drops of water were sprinkled over their heads a few weeks after their birth. They have no personal faith, have never made a personal decision, and are banking on a hollow ceremony to save them. How absurd.
Max Lucado
#23. What people believe is a measure of what they suffer.
Peter De Vries
#24. I think of talent as being God-given. I know that contradicts what a lot of people believe, but that's how I see it. I think the Beatles were meant to be, you know? So when I listen to Paul McCartney, I think, 'Here's the person that God gave the gift of allowing him to write 'Let It Be.'
Brandon Flowers
#25. To create mass discord, make the people believe there is great prestige for being the first to speak an idea.
Tom Althouse
#26. On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so totally that people believe the most ludicrous propositions, and are willing to organize their lives around them.
Sam Harris
#27. Some people believe I am the third Buddha, but this is people's choice. From me, never. I have never pretended I am special.
Kelsang Gyatso
#28. When it comes to things such as sugar and rice, most people believe that brown is superior to white. But when it comes to human beings, they believe that the opposite is true.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#29. Only very young people believe that change is always for the better.
Michael Nava
#30. As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of 'easy believism.' There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.
Billy Graham
#31. Not only should the Indonesian people believe in God, but every Indonesian should believe in his own God.
Sukarno
#32. Normal people ... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.
Scott Adams
#33. I believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. And I say no, it's not, Dad. Well, I believe that it is. Well, you know, some people believe they're Napoleon. That's fine. Beliefs are neat. Cherish them, but don't share them like they're the truth.
Bill Hicks
#34. Most people believe they know what it is that would make them happy, and what it is that they should get rid of in order to be happy. Unfortunately, few actually do.
Lee L Jampolsky
#35. Hey, metaphysics seminar is on the roof. Just take the elevator up and keep walking until you hit the sidewalk. Anything is true if enough people believe it.
David Mitchell
#36. As for me, I preferred to let people believe what they wanted to believe. It made life far more interesting. But my fascination with human behavior was one I kept to myself,
Laurelin Paige
#37. All people believe in America, jobs, creating energy here, not being dependent on foreign energy sources.
Lynn Jurich
#38. Brookie was a good boy," she said, "but he did not grow up to be a good man. He had the fatal gift of making people believe him.
Alan Bradley
#39. A lot of people believe that when you are Buddhist, you are the Dalai Lama. I'm certainly not.
Eric Ripert
#40. I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
Leo Rosten
#41. A reliable way of making people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.
Daniel Kahneman
#42. A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will.
Michael Lewis
#43. Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.
Tim Ferriss
#44. The way Bernard Shaw believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic days when so many people believe in no God at all.
Israel Zangwill
#45. I'll give you a theory: Man's closest relative is not the chimpanzee, as the TV people believe, but is, in fact, the dog.
Garth Stein
#46. A lot of people believe in reading reviews. If I get too focused on some detail of what they've said about me, I'm going to end up shooting myself in the foot.
Kevin Bacon
#48. A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.
Richard Dawkins
#49. Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
Edward De Bono
#50. As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
Voltaire
#52. It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else's opinion.
Thomas Sowell
#53. People believe that madness is when you don't think as they do, which is why they take me for a madman.
Jose Rizal
#54. Including myself, the majority of the Korean people believe in this staunch alliance between Korea and the United States and all of us hope that our traditional alliance will be further strengthened in the future.
Lee Myung-bak
#55. Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
Ansel Adams
#56. It's like people believe all you need to do is like the same bands in order to be soul mates.
John Green
#57. For an instant she hesitated. Baldanders said, 'You may trust him. The doctor has his own way of looking at the world, but he lies less than people believe.
Gene Wolfe
#58. Most people believe not so much in truth as in things they wish were the truth. Their eyes may be wide open, but they don't see a thing. Tricking them is as easy as twisting a baby's arm.
Haruki Murakami
#59. Some people believe that football[soccer] is a matter of life and death. I'm very dissappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much more important than that.
Bill Shankly
#60. If somebody believes that a certain practice will get them to heaven, and then other people believe a different way of doing it, I think it's their choice.
Jane Seymour
#61. Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
Bela Lugosi
#62. Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so did the old Egyptians, and the Hindoos, and the Red Indians, and is it likely, if there are no fairies, that so many different peoples would have seen and heard them?
Andrew Lang
#63. How can thinking people believe that a government that cannot deliver the mail can deliver gas better than Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Gulf, and the rest?
Milton Friedman
#64. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God." (p.207)
Aldous Huxley
#65. It is important to me that people believe in me as a model, trust in me as a model - which they do in London and New York - which is why sometimes I think I'm an Anglo-Saxon woman at heart.
Noemie Lenoir
#66. To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to seem to be.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#68. When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.
Hilary Mantel
#69. What's true is immaterial. It's what people believe. Belief is the truth.
Michael Marshall
#70. If people believe they can be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and they have no control over outside circumstances, those thoughts of fear, separation, and powerlessness, if persistent, can attract them to being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Rhonda Byrne
#71. If you don't believe in yourself, you'll have some difficulty in making other people believe in you.
May Sinclair
#72. I think the big thing I've had going for me in that regard has been the success of the league. I don't have quite as much control over things as people believe, so I frequently receive more credit than I deserve, and occasionally more criticism as well.
Pete Rozelle
#73. A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.
Daniel Kahneman
#74. Some people believe they are destined for a life of continuous struggle. However, if you have a desire to live a more empowering life, creating an abundance of joy & easily attracting success to you.
David Riklan
#75. I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States.
Carol Moseley Braun
#76. God is an idea that people believe in and I spend time arguing with people that subscribe to that idea(man made idea).
Richard Dawkins
#77. In America, we have a government that some people believe is too big and overbearing, yet, when it comes to guns, we might as well have no government at all.
David Horsey
#78. Undoubtedly, the most important thing to remember is your time is not your own. Yes, we live in a time when people believe that you can and you should do exactly what you want, but all time belongs to God. So make sure your time is first dedicated to getting His work accomplished.
Monica Johnson
#79. But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.
Hamid Karzai
#80. And that's good right?" Tria asked nervously.
"People believe anything if it gives them hope.
Charon Lloyd-Roberts
#81. I think it's alarming that people believe that success enables one to forget how life felt before. As if one could simply exchange one's values.
J.K. Rowling
#82. Everything's pretty consistent in the industry, you know. There's a couple of naysayers, whatever, people who don't agree. But for the most part a lot of people believe in the new class of MC's that coming to the game.
Wale
#83. Many black people I know are proud of the Irish part of their heritage - an Irish grandparent, say - but they recognise that many people believe in a form of racial purity. And it is from that belief that prejudice starts.
Tom Paulin
#84. You have to believe in yourself in spite of what other people believe.
Whoopi Goldberg
#85. People believe mistakenly, that with death comes atonement, when in reality, life is for atonement and Death is for Judgment.
Thomas Perez
#86. Some people believe in telling stories. Some believe in doing things about which stories will be told in times to come.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#87. Way too many people believe Republicans are anti-immigrant, anti-woman, anti-science, anti-gay, anti-worker.
Jeb Bush
#88. I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don't like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish.
Mark Haddon
#89. It is characteristic of theistic "tolerance" that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe.
Emma Goldman
#90. You are all aware that my private life has been pictured to the public by the press of the country with the intent to make people believe me to be a very bad woman.
Victoria Woodhull
#92. When people believe that what you believe is what they believe, they turn you into a belief.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#93. Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#94. A majority of the Syrian people believe in the regime and support Bashar al-Assad.
Hassan Nasrallah
#95. In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints ... and gods.
Steven Pinker
#96. People believe only what they want to believe.
Gayle Forman
#97. The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people believe that immense fleets and armies are necessary.
William Cobbett
#98. Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.
Ann Landers
#99. Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree.
Alice Hoffman
#100. Most people believe in x, but the truth is the opposite of x.
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