Believes To

Famous quotes containing the words believes to and/or believes:

“A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.”
—Demosthenes (c. 384–322 B.C.)

“Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!”
—William James (1842–1910)

“Men commonly couple with their idea of marriage a slight degree at least of sensuality; but every lover, the world over, believes in its inconceivable purity.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)