Quotes About Conviction

The real courage is living and suffering for what you believe in.

Aku percaya bahwa kau memercayai apa yang kau ucapkan, tapi bukan berarti kata-katamu benar - Glaedr

Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe

I would replace the quality of sincerity with honesty, since one can hold a conviction sincerely without examining it, while honesty would require that one subject one's convictions to frequent scrutiny.

I have faith. It doesn't matter what I decide.

the Christianity of the peasants Farmer talked to had a different flavor: "the shared conviction that the rest of the world was wrong for screwing them over, and that someone, someone just and perhaps even omniscient, was keeping score.

You can't go on all the time being whatever's necessary. Youve got to have some conviction, and I'm convinced I don't want to be anyone's underdog.

You can't go on all the time being whatever's necessary. You've got to have some conviction, and I'm convinced I don't want to be anyone's underdog. It's not right for anyone to be that. But once you get used to it, well, it just seems natural and you just carry on. And that's the end of you. You're trapped.

there will be people who will not be consoled for the loss of a cause which they believed to be holy.

I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing.

What did I really think fifteen years ago? A nonbeliever, I felt guilty in the midst of all those believers. And since it seemed to me that they were in the right, I decided to believe, as you might decide to take an aspirin: It can't hurt and you might get better.

In the years when I discoverd the Abbé Vallet volume, there was a widespread conviction that one should write only out of a commitment to the present, in order to change the world. Now, after ten years or more, the man of letters (restored to his loftiest dignity) can happily write out of pure love of writing.

Os homens nunca praticam o mal tão completa e entusiasticamente como quando o fazem por convicção religiosa.

De mens bedrijft het kwaad nooit zo hartstochtig en vol overgave als wanneer hij dat doet uit godsdienstige overtuiging.

Die Menschen tun das Böse nie so vollständig und begeistert, wie wenn sie es aus religiöser Überzeugung tun.

Creo que, a ciertas alturas, ya no hay diferencia entre acostumbrarse a fingir que se cree y acostumbrarse a creer

Gli uomini non fanno mai il male così completamente ed entusiasticamente come quando lo fanno per convinzione religiosa.

Los hombres nunca hacen el mal de forma tan completa y entusiasta como cuando lo hacen por convencimiento religioso.

Les hommes ne font jamais le mal aussi complètement et ardemment que lorsqu'ils le font par conviction religieuse. » (p. 26)

Qué pensaba yo en realidad hace quince años? Consciente de mi incredulidad me sentía culpable entre la multitud de los que creían. Puesto que sentía que no se equivocaban, decidí creer como quien se toma una aspirina. Daño no hace, y uno mejora.

Such is the power of the truth that, like good, it is its own propagator

Svestan da ne verujem, ose?ao sam krivicu što svi oko mene veruju. Pošto sam ose?ao da su u pravu, odlu?io sam da i sam po?nem da verujem, i to onako kako se pije aspirin. Ne škodi, a bude nam bolje.

But sometimes you have to speak because you feel the moral obligation to say something, not because you have the 'scientific' certainty that you are saying it in an unassailable way.

No easy matter to stick to the conviction that your point of view is right and that all the people about you are wrong. That is the way not merely with pioneers of thought, with heroes, saints, and martyrs, but also with lunatics and "nuts," of whom there are millions in the world. When one of these "nuts" succeeds in persuading the greater part of a great nation that he is right, the five per cent have to stop and ask themselves: "How come?