[Islam] is the dynamic conviction that a person's spiritual and worldly responsibilities are one and the same, that an individuals duty to… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Catholic education aims not only to communicate facts but also to transmit a coherent, comprehensive vision of life, in the conviction that… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy. And I am much mistaken, if experience has not… — Alexander Hamilton 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
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
Now is the time to get serious about living your ideals. Once you have determined the spiritual principles you wish to exemplify,… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Porter Rockwell was that most terrible instrument that can be handled by fanaticism; a powerful physical nature welded to a mind of… — Fitz Hugh Ludlow Copy Share Image
Only a person with convictions has a genuine possibility to be tolerant. He who accepts no absolute values but clings to polite… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm a risk-taker. I don't think any entrepreneur is. I think that's one of those myths of commerce. The… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Beneath everything else, North and West, there ran a profound, unvoiced, almost subconscious conviction that the [American] nation was going to go… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
One of the most productive things that we ever do in our lives is to think. To be able to think is… — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
To be ignorant or unconvinced of one's own needs has become the unforgivable anti-social act. The good citizen is one who imputes… — Ivan Illich 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
You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
My idea of art is, you write something that makes people feel so strongly that they get some conviction about who they… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Philippine President Joseph Estrada said he was saddened by the conviction. It's very unfortunate and what happened is saddening, ... If he… — Joseph Estrada Copy Share Image
I can prophecy that your grandchildren in America will live under socialism -- Our firm conviction is that sooner or later Capitalism… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
I do have strong convictions and political opinions, but I don't think it's necessary to imbue my photographic work with them. I… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
Anything that can hurt the convictions of another, particularly religious convictions, must be avoided. Freedom of expression must be exercised in a… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
Barack Obama strikes me as a man of strong principles and weak convictions - the kind of guy who would rather teach… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found. And this belief, which mounts now… — Thomas Wolfe 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
The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
Be not afraid! In admitting a creator, refuse not to examine his creation; and take not the assertions of creatures like yourselves,… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Wherever we turn we find that the real obstacles to peace are human will and feeling, human convictions, prejudices, opinions. If we… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in… — John Doolittle Copy Share Image
If it be true that men of strong imaginations are usually dogmatists--and I am inclined to think it is so--it ought to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
My mother always taught us that if people don't agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something… — Markus Wolf Copy Share Image
If you were making poetry out of convictions - trying to convince other people - you were in the territory of rhetoric,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration. I am rather tired of hearing about… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
I told graduates to not be afraid to fail, and I still believe that. But today I tell you that whether you… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Now my playmates never failed to wink and smile mockingly at me when one of them called 'Man flies!' for at the… — Alberto Santos-Dumont Copy Share Image
Even in merely reading a fairytale, we must let go our daylight convictions and trust ourselves to be guided by dark figures,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943, both because of its intrinsic fascination and… — Frederick Sanger Copy Share Image
It is vitally important that we can continue to say, with absolute conviction, that organic farming delivers the highest quality, best-tasting food,… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image