Isaac Watts Quotes

There is no philosopher in the world so great but he believes a million things on the faith of other people and accepts a great many more truths than he demonstrates.

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

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

Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent of the things you believe are believed on authority... Every historical event in the world is believed on authority. None of us has seen the Norman Conquest or the defeat of the Armada.

Listen to authority figures because of their position, but only believe them if they can explain why.

A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.

And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing, I despatch these present bearers fully informed in all things, to whom it may please you to give faith and credence in what they shall say unto you by word of mouth.

Believe one who has proved it. Believe the expert.

If you believe that the greatest challenge you've got is credibility, then the way you get that is you earn it, right? That's not something that any set of policy makers can bestow.

It matters if people believe you or not.

Even when I don't see, I still believe.

Trust the expert. -Experto credite

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

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

The first thing, the first element of a story that people hear, they believe it. Whether it's right or wrong.

Audiences believe what you believe. It's a matter of believing yourself. If I believe me, then you've got no choice. None at all.

Self-confidence carries conviction; it makes other people believe in us.

Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.

As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.

The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in.

Could I make you believe something that wasn't true?' He studied her through his eyelashes. 'You could make me believe anything at all.

Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe.

We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust?

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

Believe and be confirmed.