C'est bon pour les hommes de croire aux ide¤  es et de mourir pour elles. It isgood for people to believe in ideas and die for them.

-Anouilh,Jean
  Antigone.

If you don't believe it, you won't understand it.

-St Augustine originally Aurelius Augustinus
Quoted in Erasmus De Libero  Arbitrio (1523).

'I don't know they're true,' he said.'I believe them because it's fun to believe them.'

-Bach, Richard
  Illusions.

   esta¤   dema¤  s decirte que a esta altura no creo en predicadores ni en generales ni en las nalgas de miss universo ni en el arrepentimiento de los verdugos ni en el catecismo del confort ni en el flaco perdo¤  n de dios. It's not useless to tell you that, at this stage, I don't believe in preachers or generals or in Miss Universe's buttocks or in the executioner's repentance or in the catechism of comfort or in God's slim forgiving.

-Benedetti, Mario
  Poemas de otros,'Credo' ('Creed').

   Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St  John14:1.

Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Thomas. St  John 20:25.

Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

-Bible (NewTestament)
James 2:19.

Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt. Men are nearlyalways willing to believe what they wish.

-Caesar, Irving
  BC  De Bello Gallico, bk.3, section18.

By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they so were bred. The priest continues what the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.

-Dryden,John
  The Hind and the Panther, pt.3, l.389^92.

We listen to others to discover what we ourselves believe.

-Grant, George P
Quoted in CBC  Times,18 Feb1959.

   God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

-Hammarskjo«  ld, Dag HjalmarAgne Carl
  Va«  gmarken (translated by L Sjsy«  berg and W H  Auden as Markings,1964).

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

-Hampton, Christopher
  The Philanthropist.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

-Huxley, Aldous Leonard
  Proper Studies,'Note on Dogma'.

I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.

-Irving,Washington
  Tales of a Traveller,'To the Reader'.

The best that an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountain top where few have been, where few can follow, and where few will consent to believe that he has been.

-Kennan, George Frost
On negotiating with the Soviets. Quoted in Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas The Wise Men (1986).

Esto peccator et pecca fortiter, sed fortius fide et gaude in Christo. Be a sinner and sin boldly, but more boldly believe and rejoice in Christ.

-Luther, Martin
  Letter to Melanchthon.

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

-Newman,John Henry
  Letter to MrsWilliam Froude, 27  Jun.

For those who believe in God no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe in God no explanation is possible.

-Seaton, George pseudonym of  George Stenius
  Prologue to The Song of Bernadette.

Never believe what you cannot doubt.

-Skelton, Robin
A Devious Dictionary.

  I will never believe again that the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it.

-Tomlinson, H(enry) M(ajor)
  The Sea and theJungle, ch.1.