Quotes About Conviction

To 'die to prove that I alone was right' was meaningless, Gandhi said on 5 June

While a steadily-nursed religio-political conviction about Khalsa Raj, and a psychological yearning for revenge, motivated the Sikhs, Punjab's Muslim chiefs, who had accepted the Mughals, possessed no comparable impetus.

Tolkien understands the odd danger posed by virtue cut off from the Good. Over and again, he demonstrates his fundamental conviction that evil preys upon our virtues far more than our vices. Our very strengths and assets-whether intelligence or bravery, diligence or loyalty or beauty, but especially righteousness-may dispose us either to scorn those who lack such virtues, or else to employ our gifts for our own selfish ends.

I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.

Some things have to be believed in to be seen.

Don't go thinking I was one of these hellfire-and-brimstone fellers. No, sir. I put more stock in Jesus than Jeremiah. And I never tried to tell a man Jesus really turned that wine into water, not the other way around. Just tried to persuade him that getting hog-drunk and killing his own brother wasn't Christian.

To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in our private heart is for all men - that is genius.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.

'Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

The faith that stand on authority is not faith.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty.

Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.

Questioner: Is an intellectual understanding of the Truth necessary? Maharshi: Yes. Otherwise why does not the person realise God or the Self at once, ie. as soon as he is told that God is all or the Self is all? That shows some wavering on his part. He must argue with himself and gradually convince himself of the Truth before his faith becomes firm.

Belief means nothing without actions