Quotes About Conviction

when people believe a conclusion is true, they are also very likely to believe arguments that appear to support it

the illusions of validity and skill are supported by a powerful professional culture. We know that people can maintain an unshakable faith in any proposition, however absurd, when they are sustained by a community of like-minded believers.

supported by a powerful professional culture. We know that people can maintain an unshakable faith in any proposition, however absurd, when they are sustained by a community of like-minded believers. Given

We are confident when the story we tell ourselves comes easily to mind, with no contradiction and no competing scenario. But

You cannot help dealing with the limited information you have as if it were all there is to know. You build the best possible story from the information available to you, and if it is a good story, you believe it. Paradoxically, it is easier to construct a coherent story when you know little, when there are fewer pieces to fit into the puzzle. Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

The amount of evidence and its quality do not count for much, because poor evidence can make a very good story. For some of our most important beliefs we have no evidence at all, except that people we love and trust hold these beliefs.

la confianza viene determinada por la coherencia de la mejor historia que podamos contar partiendo de la evidencia.

even compelling causal statistics will not change long-held beliefs or beliefs rooted in personal experience.

We know that people can maintain an unshakeable faith in any proposition, however absurd, when they are sustained by a community of like-minded believers.

people can maintain an unshakable faith in any proposition, however absurd, when they are sustained by a community of like-minded believers.

We know that people can maintain an unshakable faith in any proposition, however absurd, when they are sustained by a community of like-minded believers.

that people can maintain an unshakable faith in any proposition, however absurd, when they are sustained by a community of like-minded believers.

Paradoxically, it is easier to construct a coherent story when you know little, when there are fewer pieces to fit into the puzzle. Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

beliefs. A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.

Nobody, said Humboldt, had a destiny. One simply decided to feign one until one came to believe in it oneself. But so many things didn't fit in with it, one had to really force oneself.

A belief is not a fact; it is simply what we believe.

Most of all, though, he was certain. Doubt did not cloud his days, nor did it disturb his dreams.

A bright man of conviction and action is a beacon to his country, but a flash light to the scurrying of inaction, ego, and insecurity of lesser men.

Everything I did, I did as a matter of conscience.

Where there is doubt, faith has its reason for being. Clearly faith is not needed where certainty supposedly exists, but only in situations where doubt is possible, even present.

Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the idea of God, not in God Himself. MIGUEL D

You're not necessarily supposed to believe it…You're just supposed to believe in it.

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

The president asserted with conviction that the United States had a divine mandate to expand in order to demonstrate the way of life of a free and godly society to the rest of the world.