Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgement.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

—Seneca

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.

—Seneca

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

—Seneca

One should count each day a separate life.

—Seneca

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

—Seneca

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

—Saint Augustine

Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

—Noah Porter

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

—Lewis Carroll

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

—Leo Rosten

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

—Laurence J. Peter