It takes a special conviction to decide to go against the crowd and to know what is right and to act upon… — Sarah Drew Copy Share Image
When there are rational grounds for an opinion, people are content to set them forth and wait for them to operate. In… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established by society, and of the convictions which are… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
In those who rest on their unshakable faith, pharisaism and fanaticism are the unmistakable symptoms of doubt which has been repressed. Doubt… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong convictions… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
The temptation is for us to share our own opinions, our own thoughts and to speak from the whole realm of possibility.… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history. — Viktor Yushchenko Copy Share Image
Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages.… — Stockwell Day Copy Share Image
Self perception makes you the person of self worth. If you have conviction and courage you can achieve anything. — Anil Kumar Sinha Copy Share Image
Whenever convictions are not arrived at by direct contact with the world and the objects themselves, but indirectly through a critique of… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
[Ronald] Reagan seems to be a man of some basic convictions and on the other hand willing to let others do the… — Helmut Schmidt Copy Share Image
Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon mother earth, with the certain conviction that you are one… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have always had this very strong, call it a feeling, call it a prejudice, call it a conviction ... that the… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough. This conviction brought… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
One difference between a conviction and a prejudice is that a conviction can be explained without getting angry. — Dorothy Sarnoff Copy Share Image
We live in an age of prejudice, dissimulation and paradox, wherein, like dry leaves caught in a whirlpool, some of us are… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
“Members of the educated elite upheld open-mindedness as the supreme political virtue but refused to debate their own idea of the good… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
Legislators in Kansas, Arizona and 23 other states who are properly determined to protect religious freedom can begin by asking themselves: Does… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Accept and express your underlying certitude, and it shall be worldwide sagacity.” — Ogwo David Emenike Copy Share Image
It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God. . . Theism is a… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image