#lievin

So I see that Christianity in believing in a Creator pulls together more facts, data, inner experience and ability than any mechanistic view could hold for me. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#any #believing #christianity #could #creator

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#behavior #believing #civilized #control #crop

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example. ↗

— Arthur Wellesley

#byron #example #existed #for example #friends

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#anything #because #believe #believing #i

Seeing is not always believing. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#believing #seeing

The sun shines on everybody. You've got to keep believing. ↗

— Dontrelle Willis

#everybody #got #keep #shines #sun

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#around #assumes #behave #believing #blind

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to. ↗

— George Seaton

#common #common sense #faith #sense #tells

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#don quixote #gentleman #him #mad #made

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it. ↗

— Peter Singer

#argument #because #believe #believing #despite