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Like attracts like. Whatever the conscious mind thinks and believes the subconscious identically creates. (Brian Adams)
I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination. (Scott Adams)
Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values. (A. Alvarez)
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. (Maya Angelou)
I really believe there are things which nobody would see unless I photographed them. (Diane Arbus)
I believe in perpetual art, no matter if there are not many artists like me on this earth. (Jeet Aulakh)
One needs to be right before getting righteous. (Darby Bannard)
Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe. (Darby Bannard)
I have but two absolute beliefs. The meaning of all life is being. However, we do art, which is how we measure the meaning of all being. It's the latter belief that makes the former belief absolute and vice versa. (Che Baraka)
You have to believe in what you're doing. In the long run, you have to feel that what you're doing, regardless of the trends, will have a lasting quality. Someday someone may pick it up and recognize that it was superior. (Will Barnet)
delusion, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters. (Ambrose Bierce)
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. (William Blake)
Through faith we learn to believe the evidence of our eyes. (Robert Brault)
I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me. (Charlotte Bronte)
To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy. (Thomas Browne)
If you desire faith, then you have faith enough. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Strike from mankind the principle of faith, and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Belief, like any other moving body, follows the path of least resistance. (Samuel Butler)
It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something. (Truman Capote)
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things. (Thomas Carlyle)
The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself. (Thomas Carlyle)
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. (Lewis Carroll)
The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions. (Maurice Chapelain)
We must hold enormous faith in ourselves. (Giorgio de Chirico)
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts. (Saint John Chrysostom)
Every Warrior of the Light has suffered for the most trivial of reasons. Every Warrior of the Light has, at least once, believed he was not a Warrior of the Light. (Paulo Coelho)
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
The revelatory or visionary is the province of the 'private' artist, who in order to render his personal world comprehensible or even tolerable, must force others to believe in it and therefore share it. It is said that 'the poet does not wish to be understood, but to be believed.' (Kenneth Coutts-Smith)
I don't believe in art. I believe in artists. (Marcel Duchamp)
You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being, not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money, but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason. (Dr. Wayne Dyer)
If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity. (Umberto Eco)
It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in so doing, you bring everything to the realm of possibility. (Albert Einstein)
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. (George Eliot)
There is no such thing as loving or believing too much. (Flavia)
He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly. (B. C. Forbes)
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking. (Buckminster Fuller)
-on Van Gogh...
The words 'love of art' are scarcely applicable to him; one ought to say: belief unto martyrdom. (Paul Gachet)
Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. (Mahatma Gandhi)
Believe nothing, O monk, merely because you have been told it. (Siddharta Gautama)
Faith is an oasis in the heart which can never be reached by the caravan of thinking. (Kahlil Gibran)
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. (Andre Gide)
Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
It's ridiculous what I do. I can't believe in it – but I have to. (Damien Hirst)
The one seeking to demonstrate the power of spiritual realization in everyday affairs should believe in Divine guidance... and that everything in life is controlled by love, harmony, and peace. (Ernest Holmes)
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. (David Hume)
I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories. (Washington Irving)
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. (Samuel Johnson)
You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer. (Byron Katie)
All you need to do is hold on tight... and believe. (Stephen King)
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble. (Rudyard Kipling)
I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true. (Gustav Klimt)
In order to succeed we must first believe that we can. (Michael Korda)
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Whether someone believes something or not, believer or non-believer, as long as you are a member of the human family, you need warm human feeling, warmhearted feeling. (Dalai Lama)
No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence. (Ann Landers)
It is necessary that... we should believe that we are as capable of producing great art as we believe we are capable of doing great deeds... (Arthur Lismer)
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent. (Sophia Loren)
The dust of exploded beliefs may make a fine sunset. (Geoffrey Madan)
The overwhelming tendency is to see what we believe to be there, rather than believing in what we actually see. (Arthur Maderson)
The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church. (Ferdinand Magellan)
Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art. (Charles McCabe)
We must acknowledge that it is our behaviour, rather than our belief, that is primary. (Peter McKnight)
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests. (John Stuart Mill)
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it. (Wilson Mizner)
Never believe a rumour until you hear it officially denied. (John Mortimer)
If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all. (Barack Obama)
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe," three times. (Ovid)
It only takes one or two voices of belief – including one's own – to overcome all the people and obstacles who say you can't. (Gregory Packard)
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe. (Thomas Paine)
Many of us think we are different. But few believe - they can make a difference. (Suhasini Paul)
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! (Norman Vincent Peale)
I will utter what I believe today, if it should contradict all I said yesterday. (Wendell Phillips)
A picture lives by its legend – not by anything else. (Pablo Picasso)
It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own. (Alexander Pope)
We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things. (Marcel Proust)
Seeing is believing. (proverb)
We are all hopefully protected by our own unshatterable faith in ourselves. (Faith Puleston)
They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph. (Pierre-Auguste Renoir)
May you find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith... (Rainer Maria Rilke)
What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are. (Anthony Robbins)
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives. (Anthony Robbins)
Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me. (Jim Rohn)
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
Believe you can and you're halfway there. (Theodore Roosevelt)
I am a believer and a conformist. Anyone can revolt; it is much more difficult to obey our inner promptings. (Georges Rouault)
Do not believe in an absurdity no matter who says it. (Rumi)
One must believe that private dilemmas are, if deeply examined, universal, and so, if expressed, have a human value beyond the private, and one must also believe in the vehicle for expressing them, in the talent. (May Sarton)
In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere. (Charles Schulz)
Creation is too grand, complex, and mysterious to be captured in a narrow creed. That is why we cherish individual freedom of belief. (William Schulz)
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees. (Ernst F. Schumacher)
A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed, but if he believes he cannot compose music, he will come to nothing. He will not try hard enough. He will give up too soon when the elusive right melody takes too long to materialize. (Martin Seligman)
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. (Seneca)
I believe in Michelangelo, Velazquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of colour, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed: Amen. Amen. (George Bernard Shaw)
It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief. (George Bernard Shaw)
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. (George Bernard Shaw)
The real challenge in life is to choose, hold, and operate through intelligent, uplifting, and fully empowering beliefs. (Michael Sky)
To think we are able is almost to be so; to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself; earnest resolution has often seemed to have about it almost a savor of omnipotence. (Samuel Smiles)
Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean. (William Stafford)
I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe. (Gertrude Stein)
I never used to believe in myself as most creative people don't. Now, I trust myself a bit. (Martha Sturdy)
Greater things are believed of those who are absent. (Tacitus)
Faith is a bird that feels dawn breaking and sings while it is still dark. (Rabindranath Tagore)
My wish is that we might progressively lose our confidence in what we think we believe and the things we consider stable and secure, in order to remind ourselves of the infinite number of things still waiting to be discovered. (Antoni Tapies)
Whatever you believe with emotion becomes your reality. (Brian Tracy)
Your subconscious mind makes all your words and actions fit a pattern consistent with your self-concept and your innermost beliefs about yourself. (Brian Tracy)
I have written too much history to have any faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I'm inclined to agree with him. (Harry S. Truman)
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. (Mark Twain)
Between believing a thing and thinking you know is only a small step and quickly taken. (Mark Twain)
Faith in yourself will make despair disappear. (Frank Tyger)
For those who believe, no proof is necessary.
For those who don't believe, no proof is possible. (Author unknown)
When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside; we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept - the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation. (John Updike)
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed. (Voltaire)
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad. (Denis Waitley)
The popular belief that the painter is some creature who hears a different drummer, listens to the Muse singing, works in a great frenzy of emotion and then collapses in an exhausted heap when the work is finished, is simply not accurate. (Sandra Walker)
I can't stand mindless purity - I have soaked myself in skepticism and am by nature magnetized to bitterness. (Brett Whiteley)
Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable. (Oscar Wilde)
I love what I do. I believe in what I do. So far, I believe I've been recognized for my talent. I have great faith that I will only continue to grow as a musician. (Keri-Lynn Wilson)
"I don't believe it!" (Luke Skywalker) "That's why you won't succeed." (Yoda)
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