Quotes About Conviction

I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

I don't care what the polls say. I don't. I'm doing what I think what's wrong.

I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question

European man has convinced himself that in order to be modern and free, he must be radically secular. That conviction has had crucial, indeed lethal, consequences or European public life and European culture.

religious conviction, and the truths Christianity teaches about the inalienable dignity of every human life, can be a dynamic, creative force, bending history in a more human direction.

The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.

it is impossible to reason people out of affiliations they have not been reasoned into.

His Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects which could be weighed, numbered, and measured; and the vocation to which he considered himself called was, to weigh, number and measure as many of those objects as his allotted three-score years and ten would permit. This conviction biased all his doings, alike his great scientific enterprises, and the petty details of his daily life.

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Verbal communication is much easier than written communication, because words act on the feelings in a mysterious way and easily establish a current of sympathy between people; it is for this reason that an orator is able to produce conviction by arguments which do not seem very comprehensible to any one reading the speech later.

I decided to accept as true my own thinking.

They must find it difficult, those who have taken authority as truth, rather than truth as authority.

If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt.

To believe, to act, and to have events confound you—I grant you, that is hard to bear. But to believe, and not to act, or to act in a way that every fiber of your soul held was wrong—how can you not see? That is what would have been reprehensible.

Conviction without experiences makes for harshness.

A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry, documented deductions of the brain.

I follow my heart, for I can trust it.

The heart has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.

He should, as he list, be able to prove the moon is green cheese.