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.)
“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.)
“Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful.... I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?”
—Isidore Ducasse, Comte de Lautréamont (1846–1870)
“My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)