Quotes About Conviction

Becky Vesey always gave good advice and she gave it with great conviction because she always believed it.

The capacity of a human mind to believe devoutly in what seems to me to be the highly improbable—from table tapping to the superiority of their own children—has never been plumbed. Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it—especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible.

The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable—from table tapping to the superiority of their children—has never been plumbed.

martyrdom. If Mike had given them something big—like stereo, or bingo—but he gave them the Truth. Or a piece

Jubal, you talk like a harem guard trying to convince a whole man of the advantages of being a eunuch.

The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable

If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with sense of humor.

Can Penny come in?"  "Oh, sure! But you can tell her that she is wasting her time; the answer is still 'No.' "  So I changed my mind. Confound it, why should an argument seem so much more logical when underlined with a whiff of Jungle Lust?

Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part…and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.

Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude.

What the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves . . . whether you are living in a Christian reality-tunnel, a Mansonoid reality-tunnel, an Immortalist reality-tunnel, a vegetarian reality-tunnel, a Rationalist reality-tunnel . . .

If you believe in it, you can almost see it. Or, at least, you can convince yourself that anything else is mere appearance or hallucination.

If doing the crime is proof of insanity, and sanity is a defense against conviction, then the crime is its exculpation, and no one is responsible for anything.

She looked at me with clear eyes that were free of doubt or equivocation. "Of course. I knew that we would.

Pike hung up. He knew he couldn't convince Darko with more talk. Darko would have to convince himself, and now he would either show or he wouldn't. Cole

I'm not going out of my way looking for devils; but I wouldn't step out of my path to let one go by.

Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.

Rakkim would have loved to believed that… another reason he wasn't convinced.

People believed what made them comfortable. What fit with their preconceptions of how the world worked.

Faith was the most powerful force in the universe.

People want to believe.

You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing.

For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true

For, dear me, why abandon a belief, Merely because it ceases to be true, Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt, It will turn true again, for so it goes.