165 Not Believing Quotes

Following is our list of not believing quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about not believing everything you hear.

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Famous Not Believing Quotes

Faith: not wanting to know what is true. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith: not wanting to know what is true. — Friedrich Nietzsche

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief . — Thomas Fuller

To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly — Socrates

Faith means believing the unbelievable. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! — Francis Pharcellus Church

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition. — Jose Bergamin

Just because you believe in something does not mean that it is true. — Albert Einstein

To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason - to believe something by faith - is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits the opposite of respect. — A.C. Grayling

Stop believing and start knowing. Trust in you. Trust in truth. - Steve Maraboli

Stop believing and start knowing. Trust in you. Trust in truth. — Steve Maraboli

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. — Mahatma Gandhi

I don't want to believe. I want to know. - Carl Sagan

I don't want to believe. I want to know. — Carl Sagan

Don't believe in miracles -- depend on them. - Laurence J. Peter

Don't believe in miracles -- depend on them. — Laurence J. Peter

Don't believe in miracles - depend on them. - Laurence J. Peter

Don't believe in miracles - depend on them. — Laurence J. Peter

No amount of belief makes something a fact. — James Randi

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Short Not Believing Quotes

  • I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose. — Clarence Darrow
  • Don't believe everything you hear — Sara Shepard
  • I don't believe in natural science. — Kurt Gödel
  • "Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed." — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • If you don't live it, you don't believe it. — Paul Harvey
  • Miracles are signs not to them that believe, but to them that believe not. — Thomas Aquinas
  • Don't believe everything you hear today — Joe Hill
  • Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence. — Tryon Edwards
  • Faith consists in believing what reason cannot. — Voltaire
  • Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a realist. — Audrey Hepburn

Top 10 Not Believing Quotes

Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn't believe it. — Ali ibn Abi Talib

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense. — Richard Dawkins

Simply believing in the existence of God is not exactly what I would call a commitment. After all, even the devil believes that God exists. Believing has to change the way we live. — Mother Angelica

I am not moved by what I see. I am moved only by what I believe. - Smith Wigglesworth

I am not moved by what I see. I am moved only by what I believe. — Smith Wigglesworth

We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world. — Lal Bahadur Shastri

I do not believe in death without resurrection. If they kill me I will rise again in the people of El Salvador. — Oscar Romero

If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything. — Blaise Pascal

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. — Saint Augustine

Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches. — C. S. Lewis

Not Believing Image Quotes

If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all. - Arsene Wenger quote

If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all. — Arsene Wenger

Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle. - Wilma Rudolph quote

Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle. — Wilma Rudolph

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce. - Margaret Mead quote

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce. — Margaret Mead

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. - Ansel Adams quote

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. — Ansel Adams

Not believing quote Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love
Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love.

Not Believing In Love Quotes

Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay small acts of kindness and love. — Peter Jackson

God is not in love with some future version of you. It’s not you tomorrow that He loves and delights in. It’s not you when you get your act together....If you believe that Christ’s love for you is a future love for you, then you dismiss the cross of Christ. — Matt Chandler

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. — Marcel Proust

Not believing quote Believe in your dreams. They were given to you for a reason.
Believe in your dreams. They were given to you for a reason.

It is less hurtful to compel a man to marry someone whom he does not love than to follow a religion in which he does not believe. — Roger Williams

It gives a message to people of love... it does not matter what's the colour of your skin, what language do you speak, what religion do you believe in. It is that we should all consider each other as human beings and we should respect each other. — Malala Yousafzai

I believe that we are put here in human form to decipher the hieroglyphs of love and suffering. And, there is no degree of love or intensity of feeling that does not bring with it the possibility of a crippling hurt. But, it is a duty to take that risk and love without reserve or defense. — Allen Ginsberg

Not believing quote We are what we believe we are.
We are what we believe we are.

I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about. — Stephen Greenblatt

If you’re a Kanye West fan, you’re not a fan of me, you’re a fan of yourself. You will believe in yourself. I’m just the espresso. — Kanye West

Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat. I know what I'm askin'. I know it's a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not. — Jerry Garcia

When you want it the most, there's no easy way out.When you're ready to go, and your heart's left in doubt. Don't give up on your faith, love comes to those who believe it...And that's the way it is. — Celine Dion

Not Believing Everything You See Quotes

God sees everything at once and knows what you are called to do. Our part is not to play God, but to trust God - to believe that our single, solitary life can make a difference — Zig Ziglar

I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds. — Ellen DeGeneres

The realm of consciousness is much vaster than thought can grasp. When you no longer believe everything you think, you step out of thought and see clearly that the thinker is not who you are. — Eckhart Tolle

Not believing quote First think, second believe, third dream and finally dare.
First think, second believe, third dream and finally dare.

Everything's a conspiracy and everything's not a conspiracy. You could look at this planet and go, "This is all a conspiracy. God made this to test us to see if we'll use the nukes." You can let your mind believe anything. — Harland Williams

I'm not always up to date on everything that's going on, but I am somewhat informed. I listen to NPR. And I actually watch Fox News, because I believe, if you just listen to the things that agree with you, you're not really seeing anything else. — Morena Baccarin

Someone Not Believing In You Quotes

If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity. — Joyce Meyer

Everyone has the right to be happy and be treated equally and I think not allowing gay marriage just kind of puts us back. I believe you're in love with who you're in love with, and you should be able to marry them. No one should tell someone else how to think or how to feel. — Kim Kardashian

Failure does not exist. Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how a certain act should have been completed. Once you believe that no act must be performed in any specific other-directed way, then failing becomes impossible. — Wayne Dyer

Not believing quote Never stop believing in hope because miracles happen everyday.
Never stop believing in hope because miracles happen everyday.

I don't believe in love at first sight because it means you're falling in love with someone's looks, not personality. — Nathan Sykes

Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox. — Hillary Clinton

I think when you say to someone You are fool not to believe in evolution or a fool to believe the universe is 6000 years old. I think that gets translated as You are a fool to think that your daughter who died in a car accident is really in heaven with god. — Sam Harris

Not believing quote Believe in yourself and you will be unstoppable.
Believe in yourself and you will be unstoppable.

If you are required to kill someone today, on the promise of a political leader that someone else shall live in peace tomorrow, believe me, you are not only a double murderer, you are a suicide, too. — Katherine Anne Porter

I believe music should reflect yourself in some way and not just yourself at the given time. I feel that when you die or when you're going, someone's supposed to listen to that music and know everything about you. And I just try to get that across. — Lil Wayne

Because my parents took a risk on me not knowing a thing about me.They believed that in everyone there is potential - that by believing in someone, loving them, nurturing them, you can bring out that potential. — Michael Gove

It's so hard to fight against someone who is stuck in what they believe whether you agree with it or not. — Emayatzy E. Corinealdi

Not Believing In God Quotes

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God. — Isaac Newton

Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes. — Beth Moore

I still believe that standing up for the truth of God is the greatest thing in the world. This is the end (purpose) of life. The end of life is not to be happy. The end of life is not to achieve pleasure and avoid pain. The end of life is to do the will of God, come what may. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Not believing quote Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.
Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.

If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go — A. A. Allen

A man is not saved because he believes in Christ, he believes in Christ because he is saved. — Loraine Boettner

Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God. — Abu Bakr

Not believing quote Forget all the reasons why it won't work and believe the one reason it will.
Forget all the reasons why it won't work and believe the one reason it will.

One can be sophisticated and believe in God. Reason and intellect are not to be laid aside where matters of religion are concerned. — Antonin Scalia

I am proud to be a Christian. I believe not only as a Christian, but as a scientist as well. A wireless device can deliver a message through the wilderness. In prayer the human spirit can send invisible waves to eternity, waves that achieve their goal in front of God. — Guglielmo Marconi

The problem with Prosperity Theology is not that it promises too much, but that it aims for so little. What God promises us in Christ is far above anything that can be measured in earthly wealth - and believers are not promised earthly wealth nor the gift of health. — Albert Mohler

The power of the future lies not in the hands of those who believe in scarcity but of those who trust God's abundance. — Walter Brueggemann

Not Believing In Yourself Quotes

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. - Serena Williams

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. — Serena Williams

You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices. — Zaha Hadid

I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work. — Gregor Mendel

Not believing quote Accept what is. Let go what was. Have faith in what will be.
Accept what is. Let go what was. Have faith in what will be.

Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization. — Swami Vivekananda

You are a person of destiny. You are not here by accident. There is no obstacle too big, no dream you can't accomplish. — Joel Osteen

Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose your sense of perspective. — Pema Chodron

Not believing quote Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater th
Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.

Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong. — Adriana Lima

Success is not a destination, but a mindset. Believe in yourself and keep pushing forward. — Steven Bartlett

My idea of forgiveness is letting go of resentment that does not serve your better interest, ridding yourself of negative thoughts. All they do is make you miserable. Believe me, you can fret and fume all you want, but whoever it was that wronged you is not suffering from your anguish whatsoever. — Della Reese

Sometimes as a man, you fear what you can't see. Nobody can predict the future. You don't know what's going to happen. Tomorrow's not promised. The only thing you can do is live your life, hope for the best, continue to have faith, believe in yourself. — Michael Vick

Not Believing In Someone Quotes

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit. — E. E. cummings

Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe ... that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens. — Joseph Brodsky

I need someone who believes that the sun will rise again but who does not fear my darkness. Someone who can point out the rocks in my way without making me a child by carrying me. Someone who can stand in thunder and watch the lightning and believe in a rainbow. — Joe Mahoney

Not believing quote Create the highest grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.
Create the highest grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.

We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives. — Robert Reich

A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now. — Mort Sahl

The true believer is not someone who disengages from this world in order to focus on heaven, but rather the one who tries to make this world more like heaven. — Alister E. McGrath

It's easier not to make a particular joke in case it offends. But every joke will offend someone, and I've always believed that the audience is bigger than one person. The danger is that things will become bland. — Sayings

Some believers are faithful in the way that they live, but at the end of the day, they will not share the gospel with as many people as someone else who has special gifts from God. — Mark Dever

If someone says 'Give me one word of advice,' I say 'be fearless.' And knowing without any shadow of a doubt that what they have to give - who they are - is totally unique and not shared by anybody else. And to believe in that uniqueness. It took me decades before I developed courage as an actor. — Patrick Stewart

My son is not a public figure to me, he is my son. I can't predict what's going to be in the headlines. Justin has always been someone who has to do things his way. And I have to be able to believe he will do the right thing and he will come out on top. — Pattie Mallette

Unbelief Quotes

Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest. — Ellen G. White

To be free of belief and unbelief is my religion. — Omar Khayyam

We are all making a crown for Jesus out of these daily lives of ours, either a crown of golden, divine love, studded with gems of sacrifice and adoration, or a thorny crown, filled with the cruel briars of unbelief, or selfishness, and sin. — Aimee Semple McPherson

God's Word is true whether we believe it or not. Human unbelief cannot alter the character of God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die. — David Wilkerson

Unbelief is infectious! The unbelief of one strengthens the unbelief of another, just as the faith of one strengthens the faith of another. — Arthur W. Pink

No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief. — John Calvin

No man can have anything better after faith than a woman of righteous character, loving and child-bearing. And no man can have anything worse after unbelief than a sharp-tongued woman of bad character. — Umar

Faith comes and goes. It rises and falls like the tides of an invisible ocean. If it is presumptuous to think that faith will stay with you forever, it is just as presumptuous to think that unbelief will. — Flannery O'Connor

So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean. — Will Durant

Not Being Believed Quotes

Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today.... National pride has no need of the delirium of race. — Benito Mussolini

If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you. — A. A. Milne

I came to believe that health services ought not to have a price tag on them, and that people should be able to get whatever health services they required irrespective of their individual capacity to pay. — Tommy Douglas

In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no 'two evils' exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say. — W. E. B. Du Bois

If you don’t have a dream, then you have nothing to work for, nothing to get up in the morning for, no reason.. and no purpose to be. But friends we do have a dream and dreams do come true not because we keep believing but we keep working hard — Kai Greene

I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation. I believe that if you just do your little bit without thinking of the bigness of what you stand against, if you turn to the enlargement of your own capacities, just that itself creates new potential. — Vandana Shiva

It is not what you want that you attract, you attract what you believe to be true. — Neville Goddard

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you. — William Arthur Ward

Error never shows itself in its naked reality, in order not to be discovered. On the contrary, it dresses elegantly, so that the unwary may be led to believe that it is more truthful than truth itself. — Irenaeus of Lyons

I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Disbelief Quotes

Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance — Al-Ghazali

Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The biggest obstacle to creativity is breaking through the barrier of disbelief. — Rodney Mullen

Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure. — Albert Bandura

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. — Tom Robbins

Man who is created alone should be aware that he will also die alone. Yet during his life, he lives almost addicted to possessions... the only assets one can take with him when one dies is one's belief or disbelief — Harun Yahya

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance. — W. Clement Stone

It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief. — George Bernard Shaw

Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger. — George W. Bush

Imagination, at the very least, brings us joy; at the very most, it empowers us to suspend disbelief and chase the impossible. — Alexi Pappas

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More Not Believing Quotes

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand. — Anselm of Canterbury

We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right. — Ravi Zacharias

I'm not perfect, but I believe my faith in Jesus Christ will really take me far in the world! — Christina Grimmie

I think [Steve Scalise] is a good man I am not going to vote in that regard because I believe Israel controls the Senate they control the House of Representatives they control the media . — David Duke

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or, choosing both. — Angela Davis

I'm a people's person, believe it or not. I just have a dark side to me, which we all do. — ASAP Rocky

I can concede that the government has no knowledge of the people, but I believe the people know less of the government. There are useless officials, evil, if you like, but there are also good ones, and these are not able to accomplish anything because they encounter an inert mass, the population that takes little part in matters that concern them. — Jose Rizal

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. — Nikos Kazantzakis

I believe the prayers of 30 years ago are not lost. We may not see the results of our labour or sacrifice immediately, but in due time they will produce much fruit. — T. B. Joshua

The individual comes face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind has not come to a realisation of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent. — J. Edgar Hoover

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning. — Mahatma Gandhi

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery has its own beauty. — Marie Curie

Jesus did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things. — Corrie Ten Boom

If you are a Christian, you are in danger. If you decided to abandon your faith and become an atheist, you also are to be liquidated according to their concept. You are in danger if you decide to become a Muslim. It is not going to save you anyway because they believe traditional Islam is hostile to their goals. — Vladimir Putin

Hinduism would not be eternal were it not constantly growing and spreading, and taking in new areas of experience. Precisely because it has this power of self addition and re-adaptation, in greater degree than any other religion that the world has even seen, we believe it to be the one immortal faith. — Sister Nivedita

Students do not need to be labeled or measured any more than they are. They don't need more Federal funds, grants, and gimmicks. What they need from us is common sense, dedication, and bright, energetic teachers who believe that all children are achievers and who take personally the failure of any one child. — Marva Collins

I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings. And have never seen the day when I did not pray for them. — Robert E. Lee

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