Conviction Quotes

1326 Conviction quotes by 908 unique authors

Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden… — Honore de Balzac
Men who have lost their conviction of what is good and what is bad find themselves without a sextant to check their position by. We… — John Dos Passos
For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all… — Felix Frankfurter
There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when its… — Thomas Frank
A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. — Mahatma Gandhi
The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience. — Mahatma Gandhi
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it. — Mahatma Gandhi
Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone. — Mahatma Gandhi
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. — Mahatma Gandhi
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man. — Mahatma Gandhi
Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it… — John W. Gardner
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a… — John W. Gardner
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. — Khalil Gibran
Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement,… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions… — Stephen Jay Gould
When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm. — Edwin Louis Cole
A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order,… — Charles Horton Cooley
Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened… — Stockwell Day
If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction. — Jacques Derrida
On television and in the movies, crimes are always solved. Nothing is left uncertain. By the end, the viewer knows whodunit. In real life, on… — Alan Dershowitz
I don't consider myself a Hollywood liberal, but I have my convictions and my beliefs. — Matt Dillon
I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can… — Benjamin Disraeli
Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination. — Andrea Dworkin

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