“Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.” BelieveWarEndsI BelieveHistoryEventsTearsCivil WarShedAmerican Civil War Author:William Tecumseh Sherman
“Ultimately, only diplomacy can bring about a durable solution to the challenge posed by Iran's nuclear program. As President and Commander in Chief, I will do what is necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. However, I have a profound responsibility to try to resolve our differences peacefully, rather than rush towards conflict.” TryingBelieveRealWisdomRealityTodayOpportunityPoliticsI BelievePresidentCommunityChallengesLeadershipDifferencesJusticeResponsibilityHistoryTechnologyViolenceGenerationsAchievePolicyConflictWeaponsSpringSolutionsEthicsProgramTestsStrategyUnityProfoundHuman RightsNuclearPeacefulIdeologyChiefsIranResolveForeign PolicyNuclear WeaponsDiplomacyCivilityCommandersComprehensiveSettlementObtainingCommander In ChiefArab Spring Author:Barack Obama
“I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.” GivingBelieveWisdomRealityI BelieveCommunityLeadershipJusticeHistoryViolenceGenerationsHuman NatureGunIndividualityIdeologyPensFree SpeechCivilityDisobedienceCivil Disobedience Author:Malala Yousafzai
“I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must still try to learn from history. History is ourselves.” MenTryingYearsBelieveStillsTwoLastsI BelieveHistoryHavensChangedThousandConsequenceTriumphSpiteThousand Years Book:Civilization Source: Civilization
“Mom and Dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I believe in... But every time I do, they tell me to stop it.” ShouldBelieveI BelievePrinciplesHistoryExampleMomDadI Believe InMom And Dad Author:Bill Watterson
“I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.” MenBelieveI BelieveHistoryCapableFolly Author:Carl Jung
“"Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of current events. They call upon it to explain the problems of their own time, to give to those problems a philosophical context, a continuum in which they may be reduced to proportion and perhaps made intelligible."” GivingBelieveMayMadeProblemI BelieveHistoryGenerationsEventsPurePhilosophicalCurrentsBackgroundsProportionHistorianContinuumCurrent Events Author:Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
“And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.” BelieveLongImportantWarRunningI BelieveHistoryBattleLong RunsTheoremsFugue Author:James Hilton
“We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.” BelieveWisdomI BelieveHistoryCynicalWormsGlow Worms Author:Winston Churchill
“[Decoding the human genome sequence] is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all of science. I believe that reading our blueprints, cataloguing our own instruction book, will be judged by history as more significant than even splitting the atom or going to the moon.” WayBelieveHumansBookScienceReadingI BelieveHistoryMoonSignificantOrganizedAtomsJudgedInstructionSequenceUndertakingsBlueprintsSplittingGenomeSplitting The Atom Author:Francis Collins
“Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one is filled with a sense of hopelessness; in a year and possibly even a month, there is now more economic comment in the supposedly serious literature than survives from the whole of the thousand years commonly denominated as the Middle Ages ... anyone who claims to be familiar with it all is a confessing liar.' I believe that all physicists would subscribe to the same sentiments regarding their own professional literature. I do at any rate.” WritingYearsBelieveWholeAgeScienceLiteratureI BelieveEffortHistoryEconomicMiddleSeriousMonthsThousandApproachYears AgoEconomicsClaimsFilledRateFamiliarLiarsSentimentsCommentThousand YearsHopelessnessEssaysPhysicistMiddle AgesConfessingKenneth Author:Abraham Pais
“If a little less time was devoted to the translation of letters by Julius Caesar describing Britain 2000 years ago and a little more time was spent on teaching children how to describe (in simple modern English) the method whereby ethylene was converted into polythene in 1933 in the ICI laboratories at Northwich, and to discussing the enormous social changes which have resulted from this discovery, then I believe that we should be training future leaders in this country to face the world of tomorrow far more effectively than we are at the present time.” IfsWorldShouldYearsBelieveChildrenLittlesCountryFacesScienceI BelieveSocialSimpleLeaderHistoryTeachingModernTomorrowFutureTrainingResearchDiscoveryYears AgoLettersMethodEnormousBritainMore TimeDevotedSocial ChangeTranslationsLaboratoryDescribingDiscussingPresent TimeTeaching ChildrenJuliusFuture LeadersModern English Author:Ronald Sydney Nyholm
“I believe in art that is connected to real human feeling, that extends itself beyond the limits of the art world to embrace all people who are striving for alternatives in an increasingly dehumanized world. I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.” PeopleWorldTryingBelieveHumansKindArtRealMomentsFeelingsHumanityI BelieveHistoryFeminismHuman NatureLimitsConcernEmbraceStriveHumanismFeministI Believe InConnectedMythAlternativesRelateHumanistExtendingArt WorldReal HumanDeepness Author:Judy Chicago
“I believe that history is not made by cynics. It is made by realists who are not afraid to dream. Let us be these people.” PeopleBelieveMadeDreamI BelieveHistoryPoliticianNot AfraidStrong WomenRealist Author:Tzipi Livni