Quotes About Conviction

Fu in quell'occasione che mi convinsi che niente potesse fermarla, e che anzi ogni sua disobbedienza avesse sbocchi che per la meraviglia toglievano il fiato.

Olhei para ela, confusa. Com quase treze anos, não sabíamos nada de instituições, leis, justiça. Repetíamos, e às vezes fazíamos com convicção o que tínhamos ouvido e visto à nossa volta desde a primeira infância. A justiça não se realizava na porrada?

The depressed don't write books. People who are happy write, people who travel, are in love, and talk and talk with the conviction that, one way or another, their words always go to the right place.

Then I felt as if my thoughts were cut off in the middle, absorbing and yet defective, with an urgent need for verification, for development, yet without conviction, without faith in themselves.

I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.

I had a deep conviction that I was good at writing, and that in some way I already was a writer, this conviction was completely independent of my having ever written anything, or being able to imagine ever writing anything, that I thought anyone would like to read.

Most parents are so convinced of their little darling's innocence that, by proxy, in rallying for junior's purity they come to believe in their own innocence—as if duplicating oneself will make a right!

Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it.

you must use arguments to explain how you arrived at your conclusion. That is how you will convince others: by offering the reasons and evidence that convinced you. It is not a mistake to have strong views. The mistake is to have nothing else.

Truly informed sources rarely expect others to accept their conclusions simply because they assert them.

Man is what he believes.

To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Biron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!

Although you may tell lies, people will believe you, if only you speak with authority.

Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she believed in God, without explanation or discussion.

Denn in den Menschen wohnt, verborgen in der Tiefe, die Überzeugung, alles Böse wäre hässlich und alles Gute schön, und es wird wohl nie jemand herausfinden, warum es so ist.

The trick is that you have to believe the lie and believe it so much that the lie becomes the truth.

Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.

He who does not know how to believe, should not know.

No me deje en manos de personas llenas de certezas, son gente terrible

concluded from its surveys that in essence what you believe by the time you are thirteen is what you will die believing.

A person who can actually understand and identify the people who often deceive and bluff , even slight indication is enough; but those whose mind is empty or heart is dirty, it is not only tough but impossible to convince them as even the foolproof evidence against the liar/sweet talker is trashed by them as worthless stuff.

Liars speak often so eloquently that even the truthsayer starts doubting on his own thoughts.

More a person tries to be right to one's self and/or others; more people try to prove him wrong.

There is a big battalion of people always ready to prove the right points as wrong, so how a person can remain morally strong and for how long.