“I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of the conviction that a hypothesis is true… — Peter B. Medawar Copy Share Image
We need people who influence their peers and who cannot be detoured from their convictions by peers who do not have the… — Joe Paterno Copy Share Image
The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end -… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Belief, in one of its accepted senses, may consist in a merely intellectual assent, while faith implies such confidence and conviction as… — James E. Talmage Copy Share Image
History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Knowing exactly what you want to do, with unwavering conviction, is the spark that generates everything. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of… — Jim Cramer Copy Share Image
“Both had trouble generating conviction of their own but no trouble at all reacting to what they viewed as the false conviction… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
God will never plant the seed of his life upon the soil of a hard, unbroken spirit. He will only plant that… — Alan Redpath Copy Share Image
In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The only rationale that the states put forth with any conviction-that same-sex couples and their children don't need marriage because same-sex couples… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
Your pursuit of personal greatness challenges others to fear for their own causes, their own battles and pursuits. Your freedom is a… — James Victore Copy Share Image
No one nowadays talks about the absolute, not even people with firm and deep religious convictions. The whole Hegelian project has no… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
Repentance, however difficult to be practiced, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
“A whole lot of us go through life assuming that we are basically right, basically all the time, about basically everything: about… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
Be hated. One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it’s often the case that one is hated… — Adrian Tan Copy Share Image
The conduct of a man, who studies philosophy in this careless manner, is more truly sceptical than that of any one, who… — David Hume Copy Share Image
John Kerry presented his confidence and his convictions. It's not about confidence, it's about evidence. The Russians have completely opposite evidence that… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
Freedom is like holding a small bird. If you squeeze it too hard, you will kill it. But if you don't hold… — Alex Kotlowitz Copy Share Image
This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
One of the dangers about net-net investing is that if you buy a net-net that begins to lose money your net-net goes… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
If writing with a goal - whether it be evangelistic, apologetic, or didactic - implies propaganda, then all recorded history is propaganda.… — Paul Copan Copy Share Image
It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense. — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
“I did not hesitate to tell them that I not only had the authority of facts, but that it was my conviction… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions. — Francis Kelley Copy Share Image
Revival is a renewed conviction of sin and repentance, followed by an intense desire to live in obedience to God. It is… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
CONVICTIONS are lessons learned from experiences we’d never want to go through again, but wouldn’t trade for anything in the world. — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
The feeling must come first. If you actually feel rich, if you have a deep inner conviction that you will always have… — Donald Curtis Copy Share Image
Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid;… — David Seabury Copy Share Image
The depth of your belief and the strength of your conviction determines the power of your personality. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational. — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times. — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The Petersons have not come forward in the press. Apparently they feel the media bears a large responsibility for Scott's conviction. It… — Catherine Crier Copy Share Image
Happiness and high come to you when you choose to live your life consistent with your highest values and your deepest convictions. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
