A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The absolute negative, the ultimate saying of no to the world, when it is just too late. And always the subtle conviction… — Don Berry Copy Share Image
The great personal fortunes in the country weren't built on a portfolio of fifty companies. They were built by someone who identified… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
[Jurors who are opposed to capital punishment are] more likely to believe that a defendant's failure to testify is indicative of his… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
“Conviction is not just the pain of getting caught or pain over consequences. It means a God-given, really sober sense of remorse… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why, when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
My aunt is the director of the acapella group Black Voices. I was so struck by them as a child. They sang… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
There's a cultural conviction that any 'artist' must have personal suffering to back up their work, otherwise there's something undeserved and therefore… — Jenny Diski Copy Share Image
Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
The arbitrary division between church and state... is used, as an easily identifiable rallying point, to subdue the opinions of that vast… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“Conviction, as Michelstaedter wrote, is the present possession of one's own life and one's own person, the ability to live each moment… — Claudio Magris Copy Share Image
George W. Bush is not preoccupied with his legacy - nor with his popularity. He never has been. He has always led… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day… — Tabatha Coffey Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go, I see very much the same thing. I see the same compassion for people who live half a world… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
The main fighter for the DSP [Deutsch-Sozialistische Partei or German Socialist Party], as I have said, was Julius Streicher, then a teacher… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
We are living in the richest country in the history of the world, yet we have the highest rate of childhood poverty… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Integrating the mind is the essence of life. Decide you will always say and do only what you feel is right. Then,… — Swami Nithyananda Copy Share Image
To know John Kennedy, as I did, was to understand the true meaning of the word. He understood that courage is not… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
What lead me more or less directly to the special theory of relativity was the conviction that the electromotive force acting on… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The only times during my religious instruction I remember hearing God's name invoked with any sincere conviction at all was in the… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
At this writing I can't even shut my lower jaw because of inadequate health care. I can't chew my food, I have… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
I think we are all of us a pretty milky lot, without tea-table convictions and our radicalism that keeps so consistently within… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The [Israelis] believed - they were possessed of an absolute certainty and conviction - that 'terrorists' were in Chatila. How could I… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold… — John Moody Copy Share Image
One has to see oneself through one's actions, works, and mind. Knowing the Self by the self is not as easy as… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I believe the Bible is the best gift God ever gave to man. All the good from the Savior of the world… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The deeper men go into life, the deeper is their conviction that this life is not all. It is an unfinished symphony.… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
But it is my total conviction that all the trappings of good leadership are generic and widely applicable whether you are standing… — Peter Cosgrove Copy Share Image
Success also requires the courage to risk disapproval. Most independent thought, new ideas, or endeavors beyond the common measure are greeted with… — Chin-Ning Chu Copy Share Image
![“[Jurors who are opposed to capital punishment are] more likely to believe that a defendant's failure to testify is indicative of his guilt, more hostile to the insanity defense, more mistrustful of defense attorneys and less concerned about the danger of erroneous convictions.” quote by Thurgood Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c70/thurgood-marshall-10063_attorney_jurors-who-are-opposed-to-capital-punish_875788.jpg)
![“The main fighter for the DSP [Deutsch-Sozialistische Partei or German Socialist Party], as I have said, was Julius Streicher, then a teacher in Nuremberg. At first he, too, had a holy conviction of the mission and the future of his movement.” quote by Adolf Hitler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f37/adolf-hitler-253_conviction_the-main-fighter-for-the-dsp-deutsch-soz_1860383.jpg)
![“The [Israelis] believed - they were possessed of an absolute certainty and conviction - that 'terrorists' were in Chatila. How could I explain to them that the terrorists had left, that the terrorists had worn Israeli uniforms, that the terrorists had been sent into Chatila by Israeli officers…” quote by Robert Fisk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/728/robert-fisk-7244_absolute-certainty_the-israelis-believed-they-were-possesse_1470093.jpg)
![“Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is ironical and entertaining to consider that at least once in the world's history those words might have been said with complete conviction, and that was on the eve of the Resurrection.” quote by Dorothy L. Sayers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/467/dorothy-l-sayers-738_buried_perhaps-the-critics-are-right-and-the-dr_43252.jpg)
