believing quotes

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

- RalphWaldo Emerson
  The Conduct of Life,'Worship'.

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

-John Henry Newman
  'The Usurpations of Reason', collected in Oxford University Sermons (1843).

The empiricist†thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.

- George Sandys
  Scepticism and Animal Faith.

I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  'Julian and Maddalo', l.14^16.

Seeing is deceiving. It's eating that's believing.

-James Grover Thurber
  Further Fables for OurTime.

Not 'Seeing is Believing', you ninny, but 'Believing is Seeing'.For modernart has become completely literary: the paintings and other works exist only to illustrate the text.

-Tom (Thomas Kennerley) Wolfe
  The PaintedWord, ch.1.