Quotes About Conviction

him in '93, so there is no reason to believe he

it and he says he wasn't. I also knew where I was going. I knew it leveled off up there. He didn't.

In a courtroom I can sell ice to Eskimos

had going on it.' Lindell laughed as though I had suggested something absurd.

MICHAEL CONNELLY TWO KINDS OF TRUTH

believe me or care, then I don't have a chance.

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.

When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurately?

G.K. Chesterton said (in a somewhat different context), "If you believe in nothing, you'll believe in anything." That

Yet I have discovered that if all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief...

One of the reasons ordinary people are incapable of magic is simple dearth of conviction.

Bastian] didn't like books in which dull, cranky writers describe humdrum events in the very humdrum lives of humdrum people. Reality gave him enough of that kind of thing, why should he read about it? Besides, he couldn't stand when a writer tried to convince him of something. And these humdrum books, it seemed to him, were always trying to do just that.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Being a warrior is not about the act of fighting. It's about being so prepared to face a challenge and believing so strongly in the cause you are fighting for that you refuse to quit.

A growing body of work in social psychology offers a possible explanation for this commercialization effect. These studies highlight the difference between intrinsic motivations (such as moral conviction or interest in the task at hand) and external ones (such as money or other tangible rewards). When people are engaged in an activity they consider intrinsically worthwhile, offering them money may weaken their motivation by depreciating or crowding out their intrinsic interest or commitment.

Both had trouble generating conviction of their own but no trouble at all reacting to what they viewed as the false conviction of others.

The options suited the two men's personalities: They never had to be sure of anything. Both were predisposed to feel that people, and by extension markets, were too certain about inherently uncertain things. Both sensed that people, and by extension markets, had difficulty attaching the appropriate probabilities to highly improbable events. Both had trouble generating conviction of their own but no trouble at all reacting to what they viewed as the false conviction of others.

It wasn't that what first came to mind was always wrong; it was that its existence in your mind led you to feel more certain than you should be that it was correct.

I reached the conclusion that there was no God. That was the end of my religious life.

Al hombre más torpe se le pueden explicar los temas más difíciles si no se ha formado todavía ninguna idea de ellos; pero no se puede aclarar ni aun lo más sencillo al hombre más inteligente si está firmemente convencido de que conoce ya, sin la menor sombra de duda, lo que se presenta ante él.   LIEV TOLSTÓI, 1897

Maybe the mind's best trick of all was to lead its owner to a feeling of certainty about inherently uncertain things.

He attracted followers as a magnet attracts filings. In other words, he was exactly the right man to take an inherently implausible idea and lead others to believe in it.

Disbelief is easy, Kane. It's faith that takes courage, and character.

He could argue a case for anything, but that doesn't change the fact he's wrong most of the time.