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Conviction Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- When there are rational grounds for an opinion, people are content to set them forth and wait for them to operate. In such cases, people…
- The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an…
- A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would, if it became…
- Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.
- My sad conviction is that people can only agree about what they're not really interested in.
- When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the…
- Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
- I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern…
- The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders…
More Conviction Quotes
- The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you… — Franklin P. Adams
- If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a… — William Barclay
- I have the courage of my convictions. — Brigitte Bardot
- We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the… — Saint Basil
- Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and… — Pope Benedict XVI
- FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day… — Felix Adler
- I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in the prime… — Benazir Bhutto
- Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is… — Ambrose Bierce
- Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray,… — Bono
- When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want… — Barbara Boxer
- To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes… — Louis D. Brandeis
- Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth. — Jean de la Bruyere