Quotes About Conviction

There are three sides to every argument. Yours. The other guy's. And the right side.

If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.

All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and -- and rational argument.

What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity.

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: "What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say."

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.

...part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.

I have noticed that no sooner do people embark on a course of action which they do not find wholly satisfactory than they muster every argument to persuade others to imitate it.

I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm a socialist and why others should be socialists as well.

Your assignment,' he bellowed at Kelly, 'was to make a persuasive argument. Demanding to know whether detractors of your position are on crack is not arguing persuasively.

He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.

No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.

Art is doing something you really believe in.

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.

The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.

Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.