Famous quotes containing the word believed:
“Even while lying, youll be believed if you speak with authority.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (18601904)
“What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all trace of them gone. We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of mens minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“One cant believe impossible things.
I daresay you havent had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes Ive believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)