Convinced Quotes

1364 Convinced quotes by 1066 unique authors

I still remain convinced that truth, love, peaceableness, meekness, and kindness are the violence which can master all other violence. The world will be theirs… — Albert Schweitzer
He believed that all people existed behind varying layers of armor which, like the archaeological layers of earth itself, reflected the historical events and turbulence… — Gay Talese
I am convinced, the longer I live, that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we… — Mary Todd Lincoln
I am convinced that climate change represents a historic opportunity on an even greater scale. — Naomi Klein
Dont teach my boy poetry, an English mother recently wrote the Provost of Harrow. Dont teach my boy poetry; he is going to stand for… — John F. Kennedy
I have a suggestion that I think would help fight serious crime. Signs. There are lots of signs for minor infractions: No Smoking, Stay Off… — George Carlin
And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up. — Saul Bellow
I believe that virtually everyone has the ability to either grow some food at home, or to find an appropriate location to start a garden.… — Greg Peterson
I am firmly convinced that, in future years, China and India will join hands in playing a more active role in maintaining peace and stability… — Li Peng
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation. It… — Ram Dass
The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me. — Madeleine L'Engle
Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion. — Benjamin Franklin
If a man is in doubt whether it would be better for him to expose himself to martyrdom or not, he should not do it.… — Samuel Johnson
The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical… — Thomas Love Peacock
I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and… — Ezra Pound
Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised… — Laurence Sterne
To give a name to a thing is as gratifying as giving a name to an island, but it is also dangerous: the danger consists… — Primo Levi
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see. — Herodotus
Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is… — Umberto Eco
Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano… — Madonna Ciccone
I hear from patients who say their doctor said, 'If you want to take Vitamin C, go ahead and do it. It won't harm you,… — Linus Pauling
What probably distorts everything in life is that one is convinced that one is speaking the truth because one says what one thinks. — Sacha Guitry
Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be… — Adam Clarke
What I was utterly convinced of, and still am, is the idea that the only responsibility the free intellectual has is vis-a-vis himself. He is… — Tawfiq al-Hakim

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