Quotes About Conviction

Joe Wright called me and I also had some trepidation along those lines but he said no, it would work. He had a very clear and specific idea of what he wanted to do.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

I've told you before, I don't comprehend religion, although conviction is a concept I'm beginning to get. In any case, someone with a real religious conviction is, I propose, a religious convict, and deserves locking up.

Perplexity isn't as noble as conviction, but perhaps more good is done in the name of muddling through uncertainty than is done hacking away with the righteous sword of self-confidence.

someone with a real religious conviction is, I propose, a religious convict, and deserves locking up.

He did not approve of anarchy (well, he knew he was in lazy doubt about everything; doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction).

once you outgrow that fetching habit of faith you will display a ferocious authority.

The premise is prejudicial and proves that what's wanted here isn't a trial but a conviction.

The human mind's capacity to persuade itself of things it wants to believe is damn near limitless.

My ambition, however, was also a factor in leaving the law. I'd become convinced that passion was a critical factor in professional success... I could see that in my co-clerks at the Supreme Court: they read law journals for fun, they talked about cases during their lunch hours, they felt energized by their efforts. I didn't.

I wasnt political in order to be political

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.

What exasperated her was that Charles seemed to have no notion of her torment. His conviction that he was making her happy struck her as impudent imbecility, his uxorious complacency as ingratitude.

Doute. Pire que la négation.

Anyone without religions will always go wrong in the end!

Pois o ódio ao Estrangeiro sempre arma alguns Intrépidos prontos a morrer por uma Ideia.

when people believe in your product, they will help you succeed through credible, continuous, and cost-effective proselytization.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. BERTRAND RUSSELL

Faith, not facts, moves mountains.

Men who have embraced one idea can live only by and for that idea. Beyond it, they have nothing but their memories.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

You'll See It When You Believe It!

One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms.

Believing passionately in the palpably not true... is the chief occupation of mankind.