If you stumble over mere believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe? Reason is excellent for getting food, clothing and shelter. Reason is the very best tool kit. Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater

Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?

Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.

What you don’t understand is, people never believe these things. Not until they experience them. Then when they experience them they become people other people don’t believe. Hard lines.

To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.

Knowing it — knowing it's true is one thing, but believing what you know... well, there's the tough part.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to seem to be.

We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in their statesmen, but they can't. Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical ill-considered criticism.

It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.

Telling effective stories is not easy. The difficulty lies not in telling the story, but in convincing everyone else to believe it.

It's very difficult convincing the young of anything. They're born knowing so much.