Convert Quotes
285 quotes by 242 authors
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If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.
— Margaret Atwood
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Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet:…
— Scott Adams
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say…
— Lord Byron
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
— Thomas Carlyle
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To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
— Thomas Aquinas
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You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work,…
— C.S. Lewis
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.
— C.S. Lewis
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They have to convert our agenda into something aggressive. Two guys wanting to be happy together are invading their marriages. Helping a kid who's getting…
— Barney Frank
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I imagined a psychic pain growing inside him (myself) that demanded some physical outlet. Suicide must have been his attempt to give Pain a body,…
— Phillip Lopate
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we must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education. We have to make sure…
— Amartya Sen
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I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.
— Therese of Lisieux
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Your final goal is to convert your athletic swing to pure instinct rather than conscious thought.
— David Leadbetter
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A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery of man will…
— Swami Vivekananda
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By our little acts of charity practiced in the shade we convert souls far away, we help missionaries, we win for them abundant alms; and…
— Therese of Lisieux
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Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The scientist seeking to…
— Milton Friedman
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But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our…
— Alan Watts
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Do not try to convert others to your point of view, except by holding it and living accordingly.
— Wallace D. Wattles
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If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.
— Richard P. Feynman
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