A mind unwilling to believe or even undesirous to be instructed, our weightiest evidence must ever fail to impress. It will insist… — F. C. S. Schiller Copy Share Image
In the hands of a determined Secretary, the Foreign Service can be a splendid instrument, staffed by knowledgeable, discreet, and energetic individuals.… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
If an aircraft is able to fly day and night without fuel, propelled only by solar energy, let no one claim that… — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
My aesthetic is probably closer to a 15-year-old's than my dad's, but I get his conviction. — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
Men who have lost their conviction of what is good and what is bad find themselves without a sextant to check their… — John Dos Passos 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
Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Sometimes a journey arises out of hope and instinct, the heady conviction, as your finger travels along the map: Yes, here and… — Colin Thubron Copy Share Image
Penance is the willingness to undergo hardships for the achievement of a good purpose. I was willing. But when hardships came I… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Blasphemy and prayer are one. Both assert the existence of a superior power. The first, however, with conviction. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I begin with the basic conviction that Jews and Arabs can live together. I have repeated that at every opportunity, not for… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
This weapon the atomic bomb has added an additional responsibility-or, better, an additional incentive-to find a sound basis for lasting peace. It… — Leslie Groves Copy Share Image
A conviction that you are a daughter of God gives you a feeling of comfort in your self-worth. It means that you… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Faith affects the whole of man's nature. It commences with the conviction of the mind based on adequate evidence; it continues in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
American federalism was the embodiment of political tolerance and decentralization - the expression of the liberal conviction that society can manage itself… — Llewellyn Rockwell 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
“Yet none of these things gave him confidence. All they gave him was egotism, which is less the conviction of one's worth… — Jetta Carleton Copy Share Image
Finally, let us not forget the religious character of our origin. Our fathers were brought hither by their high veneration for the… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
I am not so weak as to submit to the demands of the age when they go against my convictions. I spin… — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share Image
It is my personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
To abdicate from the rule of reason and substitute for it an authentication of belief by the intentness and degree of conviction… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Always follow these two rules: first, act only on what your reasoning mind proposes for the good of humanity, and second, change… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
