Those mortals who operate in the grey area between conviction and incredulity are in a position to choose most meaningfully, and with most meaningful consequences […] Perhaps only a doubter can appreciate the miracle of...

Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went into a protracted swoon during the Reagan-Bush-Thatcher decade, and shows scant sign of recovering a critical...

We live our thoughts and manifest them in our attitudes toward ourselves and others. We cannot live beyond our thoughts and convictions.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

If we don’t fight for what we ‘stand for’ with our passionate words and honest actions, do we really ‘stand’ for anything?

{Letter to his brother, 1861}… I remain an utter disbeliever in almost all that you consider the most sacred truths… But whether there be a God and whatever be His nature; whether we have an...

[W]hat one has as a born Catholic is something given and accepted before it is experienced. I am only slowly coming to experience things that I have all along accepted. I suppose the fullest writing...

What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep knowledge, my innate conviction that it was wrong.

Yet none of these things gave him confidence. All they gave him was egotism, which is less the conviction of one’s worth than the desire for that conviction.

It wasn’t until I found the courage to look inthe mirror and say, ‘I Love You’ with conviction that I felt truly amazing! If no one loves you, love yourself!

I have done prison time for 13 years without any conviction.

It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.

There is no conviction. Is the economy slowing down or is the red-hot momentum continuing? I think people are really shell shocked by the crazy volatility.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange...

Tolstoy said, ‘The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.’ Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our...

As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phrases—doublethink, thought police, ‘Some animals are more equal than others’—that he embedded in our language and...

Dreaming is the art of thinking deep about who you want to be, what you are moved by your God-guided passion to do and what you are convinced to be the passion that moves the...

Die Gewohnheit einer Meinung erzeugt oft völlige Ueberzeugung von ihrer Richtigkeit, sie verbirgt die schwächeren Theile davon, und macht uns unfähig, die Beweise dagegen anzunehmen.The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction...

rush of pine scent (once upon a time),the unlicensed convictionthere ought to be another wayof sayingthis.

Recently I interviewed a psychopath. This is always a humbling experience because it teaches over and over how much of human motivation and experience is outside my narrow range. Despite the psychopath’s lack of conscience...

Beware: open-mindedness will often say, ‘Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.

Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child ‘ s spirit.

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Your true conviction is tested not when everything goes your way but rather when things go wrong…

One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels at. He grows weary of hearing the answer ‘no’ time and time again, so he turns...

There’s no conviction for a sustained move but there’s just an ongoing rotation, … Everyone knows now that (interest) rates aren’t going to go up for awhile so it’s just a recycling of the same...

If you plan to build walls around me, know this—I will walk through them.

A 21st century poet is a woman who can speak her mind and stand upright like a mountain with her convictions, but can adapt like water in an ever changing season without losing her genuine...

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Supongo que nuestro intelecto, entre los 20 y los 25 años, encierra ya todas las opiniones que después habremos de tener y de manifestar a lo largo de nuestra vida. Pero a esa edad todavía...

In light matters–matters of small consequence, like religion and politics and such things–he never acquired a conviction that could survive a disapproving remark from a cat.

Pass on it if you’re not passionate; for convictions create clear choices.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities – that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

It’s not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.

Some do it out of conviction, and there are others who do it out of political opportunism.

People don’t follow words; they follow conviction and without conviction the words are meaningless.

My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

His Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects which could be weighed, numbered, and measured; and the vocation to which he considered himself called was,...

I had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchill in the radio broadcasts to which we listened, there was almost nothing that the British people could not...

Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over...

Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That...

Conviction

I have met with the two delegations and it is my conviction that the delegations do realize the importance of the moment, … I think that they will be working constructively and in the remaining...

If you were destined to be a poet, then you won’t brainstorm for lines that rhymes. If you were destined to be a celebrity, then you shouldn’t start searching for fans. If you are truly...

The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.