Quotes About Conviction

Are you an optimist or a pessimist? I can't remember. Which? Do you know what those words mean? Not really. An optimist is positive and hopeful. A pessimist is negative and cynical. I'm an optimist. Well, that's good, because there's no irrefutable evidence. There's nothing that could convince someone who doesn't want to be convinced. But there is an abundance of clues that would give the wanting believer something to hold on to.

There's nothing that could convince someone who doesn't want to be convinced. But there is an abundance of clues that would give the wanting believer something to hold on to.

There is something about eating animals that tends to polarize: never eat them or never sincerely question eating them; become an activist or disdain activists.

Look, I'm not always right. I realize that. But I'm always strong.

We all choose things, and we all choose against things. I want to be the kind of person who chooses for more than chooses against, but like Safran, and like you, I discover myself choosing this time and the next time what I am certain is good and correct, and against what I am certain is worthy. I choose that I will not, instead of that I will.

A questo punto, quasi tutti i trecento e passa cittadini dello Shtetl si radunarono per dibattere quella faccenda di cui non sapevano nulla. E meno un cittadino ne sapeva, più era granitico nelle sue argomentazioni. Niente di nuovo in questo.

Martin Luther King Jr. wrote passionately about the time when "one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular." Sometimes we simply have to make a decision because "one's conscience tells one that it is right.

I have often felt that my vegetarianism matters more to such people than it does to me.

You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place.

Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired.

que vinieron a confirmarme más en mi vieja convicción de que no existe nada demasiado irracional y disparatado que no haya sido sostenido como verdad alguna vez por los filósofos.

by bringing myself over the edge and back, I discovered a passion to live my days fully, a conviction that will sustain me like sweet water on the periodically barren plain of our short lives.

Why do some people gravitate to a sentimental picture? Well, think about it: A sugar-coated Christ requires nothing from us—neither conviction nor commitment. Why? Because it's an image that lacks truth and power. We have to try to change that picture. And the only way to do it is to think about the resurrection.

Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

Quién se resigna a buscar pruebas de algo no creído por él o cuya prédica no le importa?

LAS TRES LECCIONES DE DESMOND TUTU La primera lección es fundamental: saber que vas a ganar. Tutu está convencido de que la injusticia no puede ser algo permanente. Esta convicción de que la justicia se puede alcanzar permitió a Mandela sobrevivir durante veintisiete años en la cárcel

Si un científico se empecina en explicar eso con razones naturales lo único que demuestra es lo poco razonable que puede llegar a ser. Es decir, demostraría que está usando la razón a su antojo, como un medio para llegar a una verdad que ya ha decidido de antemano.

Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery.

Only God can judge me now

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.

These people's souls are dead: their thoughts are fixed in straight inflexible lines; and they are merciless as only a convinced and stupid man can be.

Indeed, it was the conviction of some divines that God created night as proof of hell's existence.

What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.

What do you say, Pooh?" Pooh opened his eyes with a jerk and said, "Extremely." "Extremely what?" asked Rabbit. "What you were saying," said Pooh. "Undoubtably.