Quotes About Conviction

my deep and lifelong conviction that the results of my work don't have much to do with me. I can only be in charge of producing the work itself.

insisted, "until the point is inarguable.

People have a strange trust in their devils, indeed.

Tell people the hammered truth, and it will ring like steel against an anvil.

when you find the one thing in your life you believe in above anything else, you owe it to yourself to stand by it—it will never come again, child. And if you believe in it unwaveringly, the world has no other choice but to see it as you do, eventually. For who knows it better than you? Don't be afraid to take a difficult stand, darling. Find the one thing that matters—everything else will resolve itself.

It's strange, but I find myself more disillusioned by a man who has such easily persuaded views than I would be by one whose views were entirely opposite but passionately held. Isn't that quixotic of me?

Why did men think that saying something louder made it true?

Faith is simply whatever is real to us.

Der Glaube ist das, was fuer uns real ist.

Zealous conviction is a dangerous substitute for an open mind.

My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were.

Arguing with paladins is like arguing with wind and stone.

You are all the happiness, he said, with an energy of conviction astonishing at half-past nine in the morning, and all the music, and all the colour, and all the fragrance there is in the world.

always so firmly supposed she did; and it was why

I am a monotheist. I am in it for life. I am in everything for life. If you don't stop me, I will not stop myself. I have the kind of faith that you can only have if you have talked your way out of trouble all along.

My improved affect did not in any way sway me from the philosophical conviction that life, at its height and at its depth, basically sucks.

There is no profit in ifs. We go on from where we stand, we answer for our own evil, and leave to God our good.

Well, a man can but hold fast to what he believes right, and even the opponent he baulks should value him for that.

Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.

Believing where we cannot prove.

Cleave never to the sunnier side of doubt.

World War I killed upwards of fifteen millions, wreaked immeasurable physical, social, and psychic damage, and left most of the citizens of the belligerent powers with a deep conviction that war must in some way be prohibited.

And each, believing he was utterly and finally right, damned with equally positive conviction the rest of the world.

I don't believe something.