Quotes About Conviction

If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced. —THE OPEN-ENDED PROOF FROM THE PANOPLIA PROPHETICA

Go right to the depth of their uncertainty, dispose of that, and all the rest must follow.

Nikad ne pokušavaj razložno razgovarati s ljudima koji vjeruju da su u pravu.

Bila je to stvar vjere. Stvari su bile takve, jer ih je vjernik odabrao takvima vidjeti.

Când crezi în anumite cuvinte, crezi în argumentele lor ascunse. Când crezi c? un lucru este corect sau greÈ™it, adev?rat sau fals, crezi în ipotezele conÈ›inute în cuvintele care exprim? argumentele. Asemenea ipoteze sunt deseori pline de lacune, îns? ele au preÈ›ioasa calitate de a fi conving?toare.

Se você acredita em determinadas palavras, acredita nos argumentos ocultos que carregam. Quando você acredita que alguma coisa é certa ou errada, verdadeira ou falsa, você acredita nos pressupostos por trás das palavras que expressam tais argumentos. Esses pressupostos geralmente são cheios de buracos, mas continuam muito preciosos para os que estão convencidos de sua veracidade.

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen

I want to tell them I won't be able to die for the Faith because I'm already booked to die for Ireland.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

They are never going to invite you back, so you might as well open your mouth and unload both barrels of that gun. Say what you got to say.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath.

Don't concern yourself about anybody. Just do what you think is right.

One does not have to believe everything is true, one only has to believe it is necessary.

10 februarie. Insomnie; nici cea mai mic? leg?tur? cu oamenii, decât leg?turile create de ei, ÅŸi care pentru moment m? conving, ca de altfel tot ceea ce fac ei.

Se, joka uskoo kehitykseen, ei tarkoita samaa kuin uskoisi kehitykseen, joka on jo tapahtunut. Se ei vaadi uskoa.

By the time the lawyer had finished, K. had completely regained his composure; he even nodded emphatically at his final words, which reconfirmed his original conviction that the lawyer, now as always, was attempting to divert his attention from the main question by conveying general information having nothing to do with the matter at hand, which was what he had actually accomplished in K. case.

Obstacolul cel mai important îns? în calea c?s?toriei este convingerea, de acum cu neputin?? de dezr?d?cinat, c? pentru întreÈ›inerea unei familii, È™i mai ales pentru îndrumarea ei, sunt necesare.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.