Conviction Quotes

1326 Conviction quotes by 908 unique authors

Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once… — Michel de Montaigne
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What… — Eric Hoffer
The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than… — Eric Hoffer
The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that doesn't seem to… — Richard Dawkins
You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our… — Arthur Conan Doyle
[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty,… — Joseph Conrad
I am certain about what I will never do - but not about what my art will render. — Odilon Redon
I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me. I look at… — Vincent Van Gogh
The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness. — Norbert Wiener
Cezanne is one of the most liberal artists I have ever seen... he grants that everyone may be as honest and as true to nature… — Mary Cassatt
A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions. — Mikhail Bakunin
The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through… — Clark Moustakas
Courage and conviction are powerful weapons... — David Seabury
Don't take what someone else has made sure of and pretend it's you yourself that have made sure of it till it's yours absolutely by… — Emily Carr
One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards... set by the critic's long-practiced taste and… — Leo Steinberg
Now, my friend, I beg you to consider that this blindness and unyielding hardness is the very core of your iniquity, and to be convinced… — Archibald Alexander
I am able to make a contribution... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a contribution to American painting. — Morris Graves
The key to success is not purely who's the smartest, who's the best, but also who can say with conviction, "I deserve it." The entire… — Donny Deutsch
The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot. — Eric Maisel
Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion. — Eric Maisel
It requires a conviction that every people has a unique contribution to give to mankind, and that this they must make or remain sterile, subservient,… — Lawren Harris
If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all… — E. J. Hughes
In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval. — Gerald R. Ford
Force is the law of animals, men are ruled by conviction. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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