J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

I think Abraham Lincoln said believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see.

Oh, obviously,” Reyna said. “Without you, I doubt Percy could find his way out of a paper bag.” “True,” Annabeth agreed.

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.

Percy (to Annabeth): If I was going to pick one person in the world to reattach my head, I'd pick you. Silena: Awww . . . Percy, that is so sweet! Annabeth: Shut up, Silena.

I just wanted to be sure of you.

Thanks from keeping me from being a liar," said Nikolai. "What?" "About your having diarrhea." "For you I'd get dysentery." "Now that's friendship.

We give each other a hard time, but no pranks.

You must see first before you can believe.

It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don't really get that annoyed about it.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

In Merlin, Arthur has a very loyal friend who keeps him on his toes. Arthur enjoys those challenges, and there is a lot of great banter between them. Meanwhile, in Arthur, Merlin has a friend he can really rely on. Merlin knows that when it comes the crunch, Arthur will always do the right thing.

Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

I know I make a lot of jokes about Mike Jones, but I don't even have no hatred for him.

Knowing is higher than believing. Knowing means that there is NO doubt.

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

Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.

Certainty is no guarantor of correctness.

You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too.

Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you.

Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.