Joseph Smith Jr. Quotes

A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.

If you don't believe in a line, then you come off as the loser.

I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you.

Proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

I have to be seen to be believed

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

It's definitely tough when people don't believe in you. Actually, that's wrong. It's not that they don't believe in you. They just care. A lot.

It matters if people believe you or not.

I say what I say because I believe it from the bottom of my soul and I can back it up.

Ultimately, it is only the witness who convinces people, not the teacher.

Belief is everything when you're performing something. If you don't have the belief behind it, then that actually puts a shunt on the character. It's like, "Does the character believe this for a minute?"

Sometimes when people say things, we should actually believe what they say.

What do I believe? I do not know; I do not know; I do not know.

The truth often does sound unconvincing.

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

The first lesson about trusting your senses is: don't. Just because you believe something to be true, just because you know it's true, that doesn't mean it is true.

I don't believe anything till I have seen the proof. For anything without proof, I think we should believe the theory that gives us peace. It doesn't matter whether the theory is true or not.

My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own.

Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.

True belief is not about blind submission. It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that distance is doubt. Doubt, in other words, can feed faith, rather than destroy it. And it forces us, even while believing, to recognize our fundamental duty with respect to God's truth: humility. We do not know. Which is why we believe.

I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.