Quotes About Conviction

Tener fe es creer incondicionalmente.

To have faith is to believe unconditionally.

Beliefs are collars to which leashes can be attached

He is committed to the truth. But the truth is a slippery thing, I've learned. Makes one a whole lot less resolute over the long run.

His only words were that he regarded cowardice as one of the worst human sins.

Dumneavoastr? nu sunteÈ›i Dostoievski, zise cet??eana pe care Koroviev c?uta s-o z?p?ceasc?. - Cine È™tie, cine È™tie, obiecta pezevenchiul. - Dostoievski a murit, zise femeia, dar nu prea convins?. - Protestez ! exclam? cu înfl?c?rare Koroviev. Dostoievski e nemuritor !

J'ai, outre celle-là, une autre conviction, à savoir qu'un soir maudit, j'eus le malheur de naître.

And how often is a deception of the senses or an error of the reason accepted as a conviction!...

how often is a deception of the senses or an error of the reason accepted as a conviction!...

Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.

a person who thinks should not try to persuade others to his belief; that is what puts him on the road to a system; on the lamentable road of the man of conviction; politicians like to call themselves that; but what is a conviction? It is a thought that has come to a stop, that has congealed, and the man of conviction is a man restricted.

Estuve tanto tiempo mirándome al espejo que al final me convencí de que lo que veía era yo.

It takes so little,so infinitely little, for someone to find himself on the other side of the boarder, where everything - love, conviction, faith, history - no longer has meaning. The whole mystery of human life resides in the fact that it is spent in the immediate proximity of, and even direct contact with, that boarder, that it is separated from it not by kilometers but by barely a millimeter.

Anyone who thinks that the Communist regimes of Central Europe are exclusively the work of criminals is overlooking a basic truth: the criminal regimes were made not by criminals but by enthusiasts convinced that they had discovered the road to paradise.

Stjecanje kontrole nad ženskim razmišljanjem ima, naime, svoja strogo odre?ena pravila; onaj tko odlu?i ženu nagovarati, uvjeravati je razumnim argumentima i sli?no teško da ?e nešto posti?i. Kudikamo je pametnije odrediti osnovnu autostilizaciju žene (osnovne principe kojima se rukovodi, ideale, uvjerenja) i nastojati da se (pomo?u sofizma, alogi?ne demagogije itd.) željena odluka žene dovede u sklad s tom autostilizacijom.

He was not at all sure he was doing the right thing, but he was sure he was doing what he wanted to do.

He was not sure he was doing the right thing, but he was sure he was doing what he wanted to do.

Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia.

Nie by? pewien, czy post?puje s?usznie, ale by? pewien, ?e post?puje tak, jak chce post?powa?.

não chegava à convicção de que existe um Deus enquanto ser dirigindo os nossos destinos. Fosse como fosse, como podia eu saber disso? E eles, que podiam eles saber? Teriam a certeza de ter a certeza? Estava sentado numa igreja com a estranha e feliz sensação de que a minha não crença e a crença deles eram curiosamente próximas.

el amor verdadero tiene siempre la razón, aunque sea injusto

Tener un hijo significa que se está absolutamente de acuerdo con el hombre. Si tengo un hijo, es como si dijera: He nacido, he experimentado la vida y he comprobado que es tan buena que merece ser repetida. -¿Y usted no cree que la vida sea buena? -preguntó Bertlef. Jakub procuró hablar con precisión y dijo con cautela: -Lo único que sé es que nunca podría decir con profunda convicción: El hombre es un ser magnífico y quiero repetirlo.

Non potrei mai dire con totale convinzione: L'uomo è un essere meraviglioso e voglio riprodurlo.

Strang had already perfected his talent for telling other people just what they wanted to hear, so a dose of skepticism is in order for any belief he professed—a double dose for the ones he professed passionately.