Quotes About Conviction

Then she knew what she had done, and remembered to have heard that a girl who expresses a doubt is supposed to have gone beyond doubting. While

There are certain statements which, though they are false as hell, must be treated as though they were true as gospel.

anyone who chose to provide information leading to the conviction of a Catholic priest could expect a payment of £100 (about £7,500 today).

Peel was certainly no Judas: he was a man of honest conviction who had honestly changed his mind and had the courage to say so. Nevertheless, the slur would affect his standing in the Tory Party and the next great campaign for Reform.

The mind believes what it sees and does what it believes; that is the secret of fascination. And in his book, St Augustine does not doubt the reality of this fascination for one moment.

Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.

This Court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is 'actually' innocent.

I live, I am partisan. This is why I hate those who do not take sides; I hate those who are indifferent

È difficile avere una convinzione precisa quando si parla delle ragioni del cuore, sostiene Pereira.

the left's conviction that revolution and the coercive redistribution of wealth could produce universal happiness.

I know it is so. What dear-bought treasured certainty that was.

The more people we can find to agree with our side of the story, the more justified we will feel in believing that side of the story.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.

For he who lives as passion directs will not hear argument that dissuades him, nor understand it if he does; and how can we persuade one in such a state to change his ways?

since we are most strongly convinced when we suppose anything to have been demonstrated; that rhetorical demonstration is an enthymeme

However, it is not the same with the subject matter, but, generally speaking, that which is true and better is naturally always easier to prove and more likely to persuade.

Il y a trois causes qui font que l'orateur persuade son auditoire, parce qu'il y a trois causes qui déterminent notre acquiescement, en dehors des démonstrations. Ces trois causes sont : la raison, la probité et la bienveillance.

Pretože básnici sú tej samej prirodzenosti ako my, najpresved?ivejÅ¡ie pôsobia tí, ktorých ovládajú nejaké váÅ¡ne; pobúrený buráca a rozhnevaný sa hnevá najpravdivejÅ¡ie.

It's time to get mad, Michael. Niceness doesn't count for shit!

Unless your hearts are free from worldly hopes and worldly fears you will never speak boldly as you ought to speak.

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do

Woody, a commander can be wrong, but never uncertain.

It still believed in everything that the Master had taught it; though it had seen him fake his miracles and tell lies to his followers, these inconvenient facts did not affect its loyalty. It was able, like many humans before it, to reconcile two conflicting sets of data.