Quotes About Belief

I have had too much experience of life to believe in the infallibility of doctors. Some of them are clever men and some of them are not, and half the time the best of them don't know what is the matter with you. I have no truck with doctors and their medicines myself.

Quando si vive nello stesso paese, uno non sente il bisogno di programmare incontri con i vecchi amici: prima o poi è convinto che li incontrerà. Questo però, se ci si muove in sfere diverse, non accade mai.

I have had too much experience of life to believe in the infallibility of doctors. Some of them are clever men and some of them are not, and half the time the best of them don't know what is the matter with you.

It is looking for the needle in the haystack, I grant—but in the haystack there is a needle—of that I am convinced!

La verità è che la maggior parte della gente, non esclusi i poliziotti, si fida troppo di questo mondo perverso. Crede troppo a quanto viene loro raccontato. Io no. Mi dispiace, ma io voglio sempre rendermi conto personalmente delle cose.

Oh yes," said Miss Marple fervently. "I always believe the worst. What is so sad is that one is usually justified in doing so.

I will only ask you to believe one thing. I have faith in myself. I believe that I am the man to guide England through the days of crisis that I see coming. If I did not honestly believe that I am needed by my country to steer the ship of state, I would not have done what I have done--made the best of both worlds--saved myself from disaster by a clever trick.' 'My lord, if you could not make the best of both worlds, you could not be a politician.

Nowadays, no one believes in evil. It is considered, at most, a mere negation of good. Evil, people say, is done by those who know no better—who are undeveloped—who are to be pitied rather than blamed.

You tell your lies and you think nobody knows. But there are two people who know. Yes - two people. One is le bon Dieu -" He raised a hand to heaven, and then settling himself back in his chair and shutting his eyelids, he murmured comfortably: "And the other is Hercule Poirot.

I do really believe that, like so many liars, there is a real substratum of truth behind her lies.

It is always wise to suspect everybody until you can prove logically, and to your own satisfaction, that they are innocent." -- Hercule Poirot

I have made it a habit," said Miss Marple. "To be careful?" "I should not put it exactly like that, but I have made a point of being always ready to disbelieve as well as believe anything that is told to me.

I have always believed that a love of nature was essentially a healthy sign in a man.

But even then you have to reckon with a criminal's chief vice.' 'What is that?' ' Conceit. A criminal never believes that his crime can fail.

It is odd, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial. I burst immediately into indignant speech.

One man in a thousand can see the moons of Jupiter. Because the other nine hundred and ninety-nine can't see them there's no reason to doubt that the moons of Jupiter exist, and certainly no reason for calling the thousandth man a lunatic.

Well, medicine was mostly faith-healing when it came to it. And he had a good manner - he could inspire hope and belief.

I tell you he brought bad luck—I say it is the Evil Eye he had." Her hand shot out again in the well-known Latin gesture—the first finger and the little finger sticking out, the two middle ones doubled in.

Oh, doctors!" Inspector Slack looked contemptuous. "If you're going to believe doctors. Take out all your teeth—that's what they do nowadays—and then say they're very sorry, but all the time it was appendicitis. Doctors!

Put not your trust in princes or politicians, as the saying goes.

Masa muda adalah masa yang rawan. Masa muda itu kejam, sekaligus penuh keyakinan. Penuh harapan, juga penuh persyaratan.

But the newspapers, they are so inaccurate, I never go by what they say.

It's quite possible that the delusions of today may be the proved scientific facts of tomorrow.

You seem to be a sensible young woman and I don't suppose you've thought much about world politics which is just as well, because as Hamlet very wisely remarked, 'There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.