Conviction Quotes

1326 Conviction quotes by 908 unique authors

Integrating the mind is the essence of life. Decide you will always say and do only what you feel is right. Then, you will come… — Swami Nithyananda
Whatever you say, say it with conviction — Mark Twain
So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more… — Winston Churchill
In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their… — Ayn Rand
Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high opinion of himself,… — Aldo Leopold
I have long held an opinion, almost amounting to conviction, in common I believe with many other lovers of natural knowledge, that the various forms… — Michael Faraday
We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal… — Oliver Goldsmith
Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... What… — Alfred Binet
The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by… — Albert Einstein
I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution. By my office… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight.… — Charles Darwin
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… — Bertrand Russell
... what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of freewill, is the conviction that we have real power over the formation of our… — John Stuart Mill
It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a multitude of proofs, how apt… — Alexander Hamilton
Faith is the 'yes' of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life. — Martin Luther
The fanatic has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for murder, but he… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
It is my conviction that physical courage at crucial moments comes from the sum of intellectual courage and integrity that you muster at that moment. — Michael Weisskopf
I would... establish the conviction that Chemistry, as an independent science, offers one of the most powerful means towards the attainment of a higher mental… — Justus von Liebig
That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions. — Unknown Author
His [Henry Cavendish's] Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects which could be weighed, numbered,… — George Wilson
The evidence at present available points strongly to the conclusion that the spirals are individual galaxies, or island universes, comparable with our own galaxy in… — Heber Doust Curtis
I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing… — Peter Medawar
I would replace the quality of sincerity with honesty, since one can hold a conviction sincerely without examining it, while honesty would require that one… — Unknown Author
No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to Zoroastrianism. — Harold Laski

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