Quotes About Conviction

Even the younger Richardsons had it, this sureness in themselves.

When Lexie ordered from a menu, she never said, "Could I have . . . ?" She said, "I'll have . . ." confidently, as if she had only to say it to make it so.

world without PACT; it is as axiomatic as gravity, or Thou shalt not kill. He didn't understand

É difícil dizer onde acaba o pavor e começa a fé.

However, he expressed a conviction that, in order to take root in the West, the dharma needed to be taught free from cultural trappings and religious fascination.

But let's suppose another way of considering her, which was that she had a special conviction of imagination. Few of us do, to be honest. We wish and wish and often with fury but never very deeply. For if we did, we'd see how the world can sometimes split open, in just the way we hope. That it and we are, in fact, unbounded. Free.

If one believes in a god, one is a Theist. If one does not believe in a god, then one is an A-theist — he is without that belief. The distinction between atheism and theism is entirely, exclusively, that of whether one has or has not a belief in God.

The twelfth gift is Faith. May you believe

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

No person ever really lives until he has found something worth dying for.

Honest men make unconvincing liars,' I lied convincingly.

Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long-bow; its force depends on the strength of the hand that draws it. But argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow, which has equal force if drawn by a child or a man.

What is faith? Is it merely assent to facts?

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum

If it be true that men of strong imaginations are usually dogmatists--and I am inclined to think it is so--it ought to follow that men of weak imaginations are the reverse; in which case we should have some compensation for stupidity. But it unfortunately happens that no dogmatist is more obstinate or less open to conviction than a fool.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.

Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but--live for it.

Faced with the choice of changing one's mind versus proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone opts for the latter.

As an adolescent ... I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.

I had cherished a profound conviction that her bringing me up by hand, gave her no right to bring me up by jerks.

He] should come to the knowledge of the step, as a step taken, and not in the balance of suspense and doubt.

It's humbug still!" said Scrooge. "I won't believe it.