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Believe it and it will come
Echoes, per a summary
Quote Investigator has Hill writing that the mind could produce “anything the mind could conceive and believe”, crediting no one; Edison appears as an example, not as a source.
- c. 65 to 75 CE
“Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.”
Gospel of Mark. Earliest we can find, about 1,870 years earlier.
- 1937
“The mind could produce anything the mind could conceive and believe”
Secondhand, from Quote Investigator. Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich (1937).
This book is still in copyright, so we read an account of it, not the book.
Sources
Quote Investigator: quoteinvestigator.com/