Quotes About Conviction

The next time you get into a political discussion, stop and ask yourself what amount of evidence would change your mind. If the answer is none, then realize you're actually in a religious discussion, one more zealot arguing with another. Have I mentioned I'm not on Facebook?

We have our version. We even tell ourselves convincing little fictions that it's okay to hate those other people because they're the ones who are really filled with hate. We make ourselves judges.

The next time you get into a political discussion, stop and ask yourself what amount of evidence would change your mind. If the answer is none, then realize you're actually in a religious discussion, one more zealot arguing with another

You'd be surprised by how eager true believers are to talk." He smiles. "And if that doesn't work, I'll tell them I'm trying to catch a guy who punched a baby dolphin.

Tell me something so that when you look your god in the eye, you can convince yourself you're a good man.

The next time you get into a political discussion, stop and ask yourself what amount of evidence would change your mind. If the answer is none, then realize you're

Right from the beginning, I had the sense that whenever he was trying to convince Pin of something, he was really trying to convince himself.

I]t is necessary to make a man better not by force but by persuasion. We neither have authority granted us by law to restrain sinners, nor, if it were, should we know how to use it, since God gives the crown to those who are kept from evil, not by force, but by choice.

Trust the people' had convinced him that they could hear the worst, so long as it was not put in a demoralizing way.

not to threaten to resign unless one is prepared to go into the wilderness.

How few men are strong enough to stand against the prevailing currents of opinion!

I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.

Don't you think"—he smiled—"that my lack of faith makes such a trance pointless?" "No, I don't. And do you know why?" "No." Nenneke leaned over and looked him in the eyes with a strange smile on her pale lips. "Because it would be the first proof I've ever heard of that a lack of faith has any kind of power at all.

Become a priest. You wouldn't be bad at it with all your scruples, your morality, your knowledge of people and of everything. The fact that you don't believe in any gods shouldn't be a problem—I don't know many priests who do.

I was watching them carefully, and I know people. They weren't lying." "No," the witcher agreed. "They weren't lying. They firmly believed it all. Which doesn't change the facts.

Because it would be the first proof I've ever heard of that a lack of faith has any kind of power at all.

You did this because something – about which I know nothing – convinced you that destiny exists, holds sway over us, and guides us in everything we do.

Don't you think"—he smiled—"that my lack of faith makes such a trance pointless?" "No, I don't. And do you know why?" "No." Nenneke leaned over and looked him in the eyes with a strange smile on her pale lips. "Because it would be the first proof I've ever heard of that a lack of faith has any kind of power at all.

inability is not the result of your primitiveness. Quite the opposite: it's a result of egotism and a conviction in your own perfection. Anything that is more perfect than you must be a repulsive aberration. And repulsive aberrations are consigned to myths, for sociological reasons.

No," the witcher agreed. "They weren't lying. They firmly believed it all. Which doesn't change the facts.

Sono tempi difficili. Difficili e pericolosi. Viviamo in un'epoca di cambiamenti. Sarebbe un peccato invecchiare nella convinzione di non aver fatto nulla affinché questi cambiamenti fossero per il meglio.

Because it would be the first proof I've ever heard of that a lack of faith has any kind of power at all." A GRAIN OF TRUTH I A number of black points moving against a bright sky streaked with mist drew the witcher's attention.

sure as eggs is eggs.

Don't you think"—he smiled—"that my lack of faith makes such a trance pointless?" "...Because it would be the first proof I've ever heard of that a lack of faith has any kind of power at all.