Believes

Famous quotes containing the word believes:

“It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and bandage of society; because a man will not lay up an estate for children any longer than whilst he believes them to be his own.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“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.)

“Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)