Quotes About Conviction

Both President Obama and I shared the conviction that territorial and maritime disputes in the Asia Pacific region should be settled peacefully based on international law. We affirm that arbitration is an open, friendly and peaceful approach to seeking a just and durable solution.

I think that anybody can become a terrorist. That's my point of view. But, not everybody can actually kill. In order to reach that level, you have to be deeply convinced.

Sometimes I test myself saying, 'If I get a death sentence if I don't make this movie, would I still make this movie?'

The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.

I think that ultimately the Christian vision of sexuality - the New Testament vision - is not compatible with same-sex marriage. And I don't see a way to change that without entering into a kind of deception, basically.

When I testify, I'll testify. I don't need to sit around chewing my fingernails.

Testimonials are enough to convince people for now.

Believe me, I'm not going to try to get into testing.

Technology is neutral: It convicts and finds innocents. We must make it a regularized part of the system, giving defendants access to DNA testing and evidence whenever it might be relevant.

It is easy enough to hold an opinion, but rather more testing to act on it.

They say that the challenges in life shape what a person becomes, and say it with such positive conviction that they must deliberately choose to overlook the challenges that destroy people's lives.

Perhaps philosophers need arguments so powerful they set up reverberations in the brain: if the person refuses to accept the conclusion, he dies.

as a young man I thought the ideal philosophical argument was one with the following property: someone who understood its premises and did not accept its conclusion would die.

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.

Conviction, Nietzsche said, is a greater enemy of truth than lies.)

a man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them.

Some people are more certain of everything than I am of anything.

The root of credit is the Latin word credo, 'I believe

He's a trump!" said Clifford, "and if he swears the world is as good and pure as his own heart, I'll swear he's right.

What's more, when we recount an experience to someone, the act of recounting it changes the memory of it. So if we reshape the story a bit each time—omitting inconvenient facts, exaggerating convenient ones—we can, over time, transform our actual belief about what happened. Which presumably makes it easier to convince others that our story is true.

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Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

Este cañón puede matar, este cañón puede destruir - y la convicción de haber creado un peligro obediente y mortal me enajenaba de alegría.

The girl replies that she was dreaming about her mother, who died not long ago. The dead are at peace, thinks B stretching out in the bed. As if she had read his mind, the girls says that no one who has passed through this world is at peace. Not anymore, not ever, she says with total conviction.