Quotes About Conviction

If you were going to be reckless in this life, you needed total commitment to the principle.

These days his own storytelling was undermined by his stammer, as well as by his conviction that a story had to be true.

What kind of town? What kind of country? What kind of people? If my father had been on the courthouse steps that day, he might have been able to summon his deeply held conviction that ours was a good town, a good country, and that we were good people, but I couldn't think what to say, and Gabriel seemed grateful that things made no better sense to me than they did to him.

Nothing is so certain as that which is certain after doubts. Shaking settles and roots.

Personally, I didn't celebrate Christmas or believe in Santa Claus. Mama tried to convince me otherwise, but I was adamant. It didn't make sense to me why any white man would take a night out of the year to bring us gifts. Anyway, what did it matter if a man masked himself in religion one day and the next wore the white hood?

researchers discovered that people who have just consumed caffeinated drinks were more likely to be swayed by arguments about various controversial topics.55 In short, good evidence that there really is no such thing as a free lunch or an innocent cup of coffee.

At the age of twelve, before I had had one full year of formal schooling, I had a conception of life that no experience would ever erase, a predilection for what was real that no argument could ever gainsay, a sense of the world that was mine and mine alone, a notion as to what life meant that no education could ever alter, a conviction that the meaning of living came only when one was struggling to wring a meaning out of meaningless suffering.

Our brains are belief engines, not truth engines.

Conviction is knowing what to add and what to remove for a performance system we fully understand.

Was he absolutely certain she about her? Yes.

You sure about this? I asked Thalia. She turned to me. Amaltheia leads me to good things. The last time she appeared, she led me to you. The compliment warmed me like a cup of hot chocolate. I'm a sucker that way. Thalia can flash those blue eyes, give me one kind word, and she can get me to do pretty much whatever.

Sometimes you lie to deceive people. Sometimes you lie because you need the lie to become the truth

I was starting to believe him, and that scared the baked beans out of me.

You cannot keep yourself from talking about what you care about most. Jesus said, "A man's heart determines his speech.

You only believe the part of the Bible you do.

Don't be afraid to rock the boat if Jesus is your captain.

She prayed now, with desperate conviction but no faith, and she suspected it made no difference either way. When

The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant; was hers, to torture her as it was doing then with the biting conviction that she had lost that which she had held, that she had been denied that which her impassioned, newly awakened being demanded.

She has told me that what she found most destructive about minority-group psychology "is that one comes to share the conviction of the majority: that one is less able, less intelligent, less educable, less worthy of responsibility." My sentiments, exactly.

one need not believe in something for it to happen anyway.

For those who believe.

it is better for us to fight for something than to live for nothing.

And as they shook hands, he almost told Bishop about the little voice in his head that was whispering, He'll find Miranda. But not yet. Not just yet. Then he saw the flicker in Bishop's pale eyes, and realized that the telepath had read him and his little voice. But he hadn't needed a seer to tell him what he was utterly convinced of. He would find his Miranda. Sooner or later. Quentin wondered if he would be so lucky with the end of his own troubled quest.

We put our faith in things great and small. We assign to them meaning they may actually have, or meaning that we need for them to have in order to carry on.