Quotes About Conviction

You can't record an album called 'Meat Is Murder' and slip out for a burger.

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.

Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.

It might be a slow process reaching to the top but I am patient. I don't want to get into something that I am not completely convinced about.

Not only has Paul Ryan not died on any hill for a position he believes in to make government smaller, he hasn't even skinned his knee.

What provides me with the strength and conviction to walk proudly among protesters so angry about the policies I endorse is the support I absorb when I am in my own constituency. Whenever I am at home, I am met with smiling faces, and words of thanks, even hugs.

For those whose faith has faded, the reasons may be real to them, but these reasons do not change the reality of what Joseph Smith restored.

Conservatism is, among many other things, a culture. The most important glue binding it together is a shared sense of cultural grievance - the conviction, uniting conservatives high and low, theocratic and plutocratic, neocon and paleocon, that someone, somewhere is looking down their noses at them with a condescending sneer.

I'm in a position of feeling secure enough so that I can say what I think is right and if so many people think it's wrong that I get fired, well, I've got enough to eat.

Even if you have so many people saying, 'Yes, this is for you! This is your path!' unless you feel it... It needs to be your own passion, it needs to be your own will.

I wasn't with Joseph, but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science, and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it.

People feel they have been let in on a deep secret of the universe, and they cannot be shaken from that conviction.

noetic quality. People feel they have been let in on a deep secret of the universe, and they cannot be shaken from that conviction.

But along with the feeling of ineffability, the conviction that some profound objective truth has been disclosed to you is a hallmark of the mystical experience, regardless of whether it has been occasioned by a drug, meditation, fasting, flagellation, or sensory deprivation.

William James gave a name to this conviction: the noetic quality. People feel they have been let in on a deep secret of the universe, and they cannot be shaken from that conviction.

I will follow the good side right to the fire, but not into it if I can help it.

So much din from so many philosophical brainboxes! Trust in your philosophy now! Boast that you are the one who has found the lucky bean in your festive pudding!

if she were its leader. Not that she ever would be: she was born to be a dissenter within a larger certainty, she knows that.

Belief was a place that people didn't leave until they absolutely must.

But Planck would always reassure Einstein. He would write, "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because the opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

When we believe something, we assume we are right about it to the point that we will destroy relationships in order to defend our position.

You have to trust yourself and choose to believe or not to believe what someone says to you.

La fe es el resultado de un acuerdo.

That is why we need a great deal of courage to challenge our own beliefs.