Quotes About Conviction

Only those things the heart believes are true.

No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.

One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.

What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that this is the truth. . . . When one so exposes it [integrity] and sees it come to life one exclaims in rapture, But this is what I have always felt and known and desired! And one boils over with excitement, and, shutting the book even with a kind of reverence as if it were something very precious, a stand-by to return to as long as one lives, one puts it back on the shelf.

No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes... ....Tories, Liberal Party and Labour Party for what do they battle except their own prestige - No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes....Tories, Liberal Party and Labour Party for what do they battle except their own prestige

For the vision of a novelist is both complex and specialised; complex, because behind his characters and apart from them must stand something stable to which he relates them; specialised because since he is a single person with one sensibility the aspects of life in which he can believe with conviction are strictly limited

There is something absolute in us which despises qualification.

One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.

What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that this is the truth. Yes, one feels, I should never have thought that this could be so; I have never known people behaving like that. But you have convinced me that so it is, so it happens

The present participle is the Devil himself, she thought, now that we are in the place for believing in Devils.

upon the obstinate irrepressible conviction which makes youth so intolerably disagreeable—I am what I am, and intend to be it

That was her feeling - Othello's feeling, and she felt it, she was convinced, as strongly as Shakespeare meant Othello to feel it, all because she was coming down to dinner in a white frock to meet Sally Seton!

By conviction an atheist perhaps, he is taken by surprise with moments of extraordinary exaltation. Nothing

He went on saying No to her, on principle, for he never yielded to a woman on account of her sex.

No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high. (...) It is not love of truth but desire to prevail that sets quarter against quarter and makes parish desire the downfall of parish. Each seeks peace of mind and subserviency rather than the triumph of truth and the exaltation of virtue.

passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.

I am quite willing to admit that they are also a deception but right now I believe in them so much that I infect them with truth.

am quite willing to admit that they are also a deception but right now I believe in them so much that I infect them with truth.

Oh, to shout it so that all of you believe me at last, you cruel, smug people...

Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer.

You can trust me." "Trust you? I hardly know you." The protect sounded weak, despite the force with which she pushed it past her lips. "You really want me to believe you feel that way? Because I've been trying to convince myself that's how I feel about you, and it's not working. Not one damned bit.

When you can't be sure of anything else in this crapped-on world, you have to be sure of yourself.

So, tell me. Have you found a reason to fight yet? Buddy.

Larry Kramer's speech is Jewish in the devotion it displays to the messianic conviction that the truth liberates if its precepts are entirely engaged with, and lived.