Quotes About Conviction

As Samuel Butler wrote more than 300 years ago, "He who agrees against his will / Is of the same opinion still.

This account of him [Thomas More] developed as I wrote: what first attracted me was a person who could not be accused of any incapacity for life, who indeed seized life in great variety and almost greedy quantities, who nevertheless found something in himself without which life was valueless and when that was denied him was able to grasp his death.

The characterization of entire groups as victims has underwritten the conviction that such groups may never be subjected to criticism of any kind.

Without faith there is no truth, for that is all the truth is or ever was.

There are more martyrs to nonsense than truth, truth preferring missionaries.

Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith.

To accept on faith is the basic requirement for getting on with life.

I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose.

Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.

What is certainty but the refuge of those whose faith is not strong enough to entertain doubt.

In your passion for the true, people may see nothing but faddism.

You call for faith:I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.The more of doubt, the stronger faith, I say,If faith o'ercomes doubt.

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.

The point is that the powers on which he chiefly relied in exercising this forceful individual leadership were his powers of persuasion.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.

It is much more powerful to get others to agree with you through your actions, without saying a word. Demonstrate, do not explicate.

We will quote the Bible, refer to unverifiable statistics. Who can be persuaded by bags of air like that? Action and demonstration are much more powerful and meaningful

elige una causa, un ideal, una visión, y demuestra que no te desvías de tu meta. La gente imaginará que tu seguridad procede de algo real.

Conviction Bias I believe in this idea so strongly. It must be true.

Debes creer en algo, y con tal firmeza que anime todos tus gestos y encienda tu mirada. Un prerrequisito de la creencia ardiente es una gran causa que junte a las personas, una cruzada.

The power of demonstrating your idea is that your opponents do not get defensive, and are therefore more open to persuasion. Making them literally and physically feel your meaning is infinitely more powerful than argument.

Verbal argument has one vital use in the realm of power: To distract and cover your tracks when you are practicing deception or are caught in a lie. In such cases it is to your advantage to argue with all the conviction you can muster. Draw the other person into an argument to distract them from your deceptive move.

A person who has something to prove will move mountains for you.

Quod volimus credimus libenter we always believe what we want to believe