Believes

Famous quotes containing the word believes:

“... if it be true that death is annihilation, then the man who believes that he will certainly go straight to heaven when he dies, provided he has fulfilled certain simply observances in this life, has a cheap pleasure which will not be followed by the least disappointment.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)

“... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“A man calumniated is doubly injured—first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–425 B.C.)