Convinced Quotes

1364 Convinced quotes by 1066 unique authors

I'm convinced that you never have to give up liberties to be safe. I think you're less safe when you give up your liberties. — Ron Paul
She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be just the opposite,… — Julio Cortazar
And this is how I know that it's all just words, words, words - that fundamentally, they make no difference... Our relationship, for as long… — Curtis Sittenfeld
All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.… — William Faulkner
The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch everything she did… — Diane Setterfield
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. — Aristotle
The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that… — Booker T. Washington
I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless. — R. Buckminster Fuller
The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
...But they had, perversely, been living among people who were peering into the wrong end of the telescope, or something, and who had convinced themselves… — Neal Stephenson
The soldier is convinced that a certain indefinitely extendable time period is accorded him before he is killed, the burglar before he is caught, men… — Marcel Proust
In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose, now in youth she was convinced it was too late to change. — Paulo Coelho
But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip, discuss the myriad… — Robert A. Heinlein
I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at… — Jane Austen
Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it… — Markus Zusak
I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world… — Florence Nightingale
Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man ... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And… — George Carlin
Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it. — Rene Descartes
I'd been convinced I was on the outside, but really, I'd always been within arm's reach. All I had to do was ask, and I,… — Sarah Dessen
100 years ago, buying something you could make was considered wasteful; now making something you could buy is considered wasteful. I am not convinced this… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs. — Madeleine L'Engle
We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others. — Blaise Pascal
True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That… — Alexander Pope
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become… — Og Mandino
I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what… — Jane Austen

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