Believing

Famous quotes containing the word believing:

“Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.”
—Günther Grass (b. 1927)

“... there are some who, believing that all is for the best in the best of possible worlds, and that to-morrow is necessarily better than to-day, may think that if culture is a good thing we shall infallibly be found to have more of it that we had a generation since; and that if we can be shown not to have more of it, it can be shown not to be worth seeking.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)

“I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)