Quotes About Conviction

Faith: 'that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.

Es esa facultad que nos permite creer en lo que nosotros sabemos que no es verdad.

la fe de esta manera: Es esa facultad que nos permite creer en lo que nosotros sabemos que no es verdad.

Una vez escuché a un norteamericano que definía la fe de esta manera: "Es esa facultad que nos permite creer en lo que nosotros sabemos que no es verdad.

Faith, that which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.

A lie twice believed is self decieved

Vannessa wasn't wrong.

A man with a brave tongue should support his words with courageous actions.

I think your husband has that something about him that defines honor very narrowly. I fear he is the stuff of which martyrs are made. (Tom Lasser, p. 358)

did another line and believed him because it is easier to move through the motions than not to.

Yes, you can choose to say you believe something. But whether you actually and authentically do believe it is less choosable than it seems.

We create our own future by our own beliefs, which control our actions. A strong enough belief system, a sufficiently powerful conviction, can make anything happen. This is how we create our consensus reality, including our gods.

Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt.

We create our own future by our own beliefs, which control our actions. A strong enough belief system, a sufficiently powerful conviction, can make anything happen. This is how we create our consensus reality, including our gods. —REVEREND MOTHER RAMALLO, Sayyadina of the Fremen

Just repeating a statement often and with great vehemence does not make it a fact, and no amount of repetition can make a rational person believe it. —DRAIGO ROGET, report to Venport Holdings, "Analysis of Fanatical Patterns

Face it, you can be a writer or a pacifist. But you can't be both.

Levi, Maria called. Come back. We're not finished yet. He paused What, Maria? You asked me what I believe in? I believed in you. He nodded his head sadly. Yes, you did. And before you met me, you believed in nothing. But that's the thing with belief, Maria. It's easy to believe in something when it doesn't require anything from you. It's much harder, though, when the object of your belief requires something of you or asks for something you don't want to give. That's when real belief occurs.

words can become truth if enough people speak them!

We must understand the essence of our faith to be something other than a list of opinions, propositions, or statements that our group holds but cannot prove. (p. 22)

Whatever you believe, with conviction, becomes your reality.

Whatever you believe, with feeling, becomes your reality.

no crees lo que ves, sino que ves lo que ya crees.

This is the basic principle that underlies most religion, psychology, philosophy, and metaphysics. This law says, "Whatever you believe, with conviction, becomes your reality.

The war was being fought in an era of unlimited suspicion, and as Smith had so bitterly pointed out, simply to be suspected was just about as bad as to be convicted.