Conviction Quotes

1326 Conviction quotes by 908 unique authors

What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal. — Adi Shankara
Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth. — Bertrand Russell
Whenever convictions are not arrived at by direct contact with the world and the objects themselves, but indirectly through a critique of the opinions of… — Max Scheler
Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure… — John Shimkus
Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery… — Samuel Johnson
Given the irreversibility of the death penalty, the possibility of a wrongful conviction can never be overstated — George Gascon
Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. — Winston Churchill
There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the end of their… — Ayn Rand
The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something — Maria Montessori
Conviction is not merely an opinion. It is something rooted so deeply in the conscience that to change a conviction would be to change the… — Ravi Zacharias
Knowing exactly what you want to do, with unwavering conviction, is the spark that generates everything. — Deepak Chopra
Unless you make tremendous efforts, you will not be convinced that effort will take you nowhere. The self is so self-confident that unless it is… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as… — Alexis de Tocqueville
PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. — Ambrose Bierce
Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in… — Rick Renzi
The feeling must come first. If you actually feel rich, if you have a deep inner conviction that you will always have all that you… — Donald Curtis
Christianity is not consistency to conscience or to convictions; Christianity is being true to Jesus Christ. — Oswald Chambers
I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my conviction this is,… — Albert Einstein
Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness. — Neville Goddard
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for. — Seamus Heaney
There is really no practical help that one can offer; it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own convictions, or working with one's own… — Truman Capote
Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to… — Plato
Ronald Reagan's well documented final battles with Alzheimer's disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought. — Bill Jenkins
Home is the bottom line of life, the anvil upon which attitudes and convictions are hammered out the single most influential force in our earthly… — Charles R. Swindoll
A person without conviction is a weak, jellyfish type of individual who mindlessly follows the crowd. — Rick Warren

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