Quotes About Conviction

the conviction in the minds of many people that cryptology is a black art, a form of occultism whose practitioner must, in William F. Friedman's apt phrase, "perforce commune daily with dark spirits to accomplish his feats of mental jiu-jitsu.

Not at all," Fourrier said, claiming that he had always believed that the physician was sending people to freedom. Massu, after the interview, felt a sudden need for a shower.

And it doesn't even matter if it's true or not. What matters is that I feel it, and believe it.

And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic nor popular - but one must take it because it is right.

They had their beliefs, and those beliefs were stronger than any belief they had in him.

How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them-you go on the bridge because you trust it will not fall the fingers will clasp because we trust them to.

I knew you better than anyone else. I was sure of it.

If she'd been bleeding in the street, you would've run to get help. It's the same thing! Typical, I could hear you saying back. The whole point is that I wasn't bleeding in the street . I wasn't dying of cancer. You couldn't take an X-ray and see what was wrngsithme. You couldn't make such an easy diagnosis. You had to guess. And everybody guessed wrong. But the things is, I hadn't even made the guess. I trusted that you knew what you were doing. You were very convincing. And I destroyed you.

Yeah, but the truth isn't very helpful if people don't believe it.

I know I am lying to myself, but I also choose to believe it.

I don't believe a word you're saying... but say it again.

The minute I knew I was in love was the minute when there was no question about it. -The Escalator, A Love Story

I bought his Evidence That Demands a Verdict

Writers are asked, 'How could you know so much about [fill in the profession]?' The answer, if the writing satisfies, is that one makes it up. And the job, my job, as a dramatist, was not to write accurately, but to write persuasively. If and when I do my job well, subsequent cowboys, as it were, will talk like me.

El hombre nunca hace el mal tan completa y alegremente como cuando lo hace por convicción religiosa. Dijo Pascal.

Speed eliminates all doubt. Am I smart enough? Will people like me? Do I really look all right in this plastic jumpsuit?

It had nothing to do with changing people—forget that, on a good day you're lucky if you can talk someone into changing their socks.

A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it.

No está permitido dudar. No está permitido decir la verdad. No está permitido rectificar

Jesucristo hoy no dudaría dos tertulias ni resistiría el escrutinio de sus andanzas por Galilea.

logic, as the TFN knew, was often no more than a way of going wrong with confidence

logic is an organized way of going wrong with confidence.

Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself.

Doubt is poison. It leads to a loss of faith in yourself, and in all that's good and true.