Quotes About Conviction

No one has been so convinced as I of the futility of everything; and no one has taken so tragically so many futile things.

Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause.

Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.

And - and don't forget that the structure of the atom cannot be seen but it nonetheless known. I know about lots of things I've never seen. And so do you. You can't show proof of the truest thing of all, all you can do is believe. Weep and believe.

Dü?ünceler insan? öldürebilir ama dü?üncelerimiz u?runa ölmeye de?er.

Conviction, as Michelstaedter wrote, is the present possession of one's own life and one's own person, the ability to live each moment to the full, not goading oneself madly into burning it up fast and using it with a view to an all too imminent future, thus destroying it in the hope that life -- the whole of life -- may pass swiftly.

If other people choose to believe because I do, great. I want to show people God's love through what I do and who I am. At the same time, I don't feel I need to pass out Bibles at the concert.

all the evidence to prove that

Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time.

It's easier to hold your principles 100 percent of the time than it is to hold them 98 percent of the time.

Whatever doubt might rise, he knew that he was right. But the rightness was an intellectual rightness and the doubt emotional.

Be firm in every word you say. There is no remorse in retraction.

Believing in God because doing so satisfies one's needs is different from believing that there is a God solely because of evidence.

If a person is confident enough in the way they feel, whether it's an art form or whether it's just in life, it comes off---you don't have anything to prove; you can just be who you are.

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty that what we believe is not necessarily true that what we like is not necessarily good and that all questions are open.

There is no reasoning someone out of a position he has not reasoned himself into.

a system of belief which confused the desirable and the inevitable was still a dogma.

Though she hadn't seen other countries, she was convinced that America was the best because of the equality of its people, "there being none so immensely rich as to lord it over us, neither any so abjectly poor as to suffer for the necessaries of life.

The only lies that are true are the ones that you believe.

Faith is believing that the outcome will be what it should be, no matter what it is.

He'd come to believe two conflicting ideas with equal conviction: that communism was the only way man could be truly content; and that man, given his selfish ways, could never practice communism with any success. The natural product of these two views was that man could never be content. History, with its procession of disgruntled political idealists, tended to prove him right.

He'd once read (or heard)—Disraeli, was it? (or Jimmy Bowden?)—that a man ought never to apologize; never to explain. He did neither

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

Most of our so-called thinking processes are devoted to finding excuses for going on believing as we already do.