Quotes About Conviction

It's really surprising that what you put on paper, people will believe.

What does it mean to believe rather than to know? To surrender to something that's not fact but faith?

You wouldn't do anything like that,' he said. 'You'll see,' I said.

If I'm wrong, you can prove it on me and I'll eat my chair cushion.

here you've got to live, breathe, and eat trust, or you're dead.

An apology is a defense, and there is no higher calling than to defend one's faith, especially from ignorance and hate.

Let your yes be yes and your no be no.

One way to pick a future is to believe it's inevitable.

Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they'll work.

El único pesar no era la soledad, sino que los otros se negaran a creer en la gloria que les esperaba.

Ne cennetler, ne cehennemler; tek var olan, doÄŸrusunu yapt???n?za inanana kadar yaratt???n?z bu sonsuz dünyalard?r.

Some guys - a lot of guys - don't believe what they are seeing, especially if it gets in the way of what they eat or drink or think or believe. Me, I don't believe in God. But if I saw him, I would. I wouldn't just go around saying 'Jesus, that was a great special effect.' The definition of an asshole is a guy who doesn't believe what he's seeing. And you can quote me.

We form opinions and then spend our entire lifetimes validating what we believe to be true.

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.

Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn't matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.

It is all too easy to mistake passion that can change its mind for fundamentalism, which never will.

I am passionate about the truth. Passion is very different from fundamentalism.

Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: 'When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.

when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal force, the truth does not necessarily lie midway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong. And that justifies passion on the other side.

Fundamentalists know they are right because they have read the truth in a holy book and they know, in advance, that nothing will budge them from their belief. The truth of the holy book is an axiom, not the end product of a process of reasoning. The book is true, and if the evidence seems to contradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out, not the book.

My passion is based on evidence.

Fundamentalists know what they believe and they know that nothing will change their minds.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth.

The fundamentalist Kurt Wise proclaims that all the evidence in the universe would not change his mind. The true scientist, however passionately he may 'believe' in evolution, knows exactly what it would take to change his mind: Evidence.