Quotes About Conviction

It is not important what can or cannot be done. What is important is what people will or will not believe can be done.

Since I do not believe in so many things, it is not difficult for me to disbelieve in the Fall as well, so that I am entirely convinced I will be telling the truth to the people.

if people believe this, they would act on that belief. Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted

His honor, rests in the very actions that led to his conviction and death. It is beyond your power to add to or detract from it.

Not all persons would be equally believed, Demerzel. A mathematician, however, who could back his prophecy with mathematical formulas and terminology, might be understood by no one and yet believed by everyone.

Estamos tan rodeados de historias sobrenaturales, de la aceptación sin problemas de lo paranormal, de la amenaza de los distintos poderes que intentan con todas sus fuerzas convencernos de la existencia de lo sobrenatural, que hasta los más firmes podemos sentirnos desfallecer.

It is odd that, though no one who has never studied chess would dream he could beat a Grand Master, so many strict amateurs with little or no scientific training are convinced they can point out the 'obvious' flaws in Einstein's theories.

Well, he used to say that only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed. He also said that nothing had to be true, but everything had to sound true.

para él la igualdad no sólo era posible, sino inevitable, y la practicaba como una religión.

Caminaba erguido y con el pecho adelante, dispuesto al combate, hablaba con voz de actor y elocuencia de iluminado, era controlado en los gestos, rápido de pensamiento e irreductible en sus convicciones fundamentales

Miss Rose has decided that Eliza would have learning, dowry, and fame as a beauty even if she was not one, because it was her view that beauty is a question of style. Any woman who conducts herself with the queenly assurance of a belle, she maintained, will convince everyone that she is beautiful.

Jaime was convinced that after so many years of struggle the Socialists were finally going to win. This he attributed to the fact that the people had become conscious of their needs and their own strength.

I am glad that Zimbabwe and China speak the same language on many issues. We share the same conviction that only a fair, just, and non-prescriptive world order, based on the principles of the charter of the United Nations, can deliver the development we all need.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion 20 years later.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

His Christianity was muscular.

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act accordingly to their beliefs.

What a man believes, he will die for. What a man merely thinks, he will change his mind about.

A belief which does not spring from a conviction in the emotions is no belief at all.

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

I am a stranger to half measures.