Convinced Quotes

1364 Convinced quotes by 1066 unique authors

Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread – these are two lows of… — Yann Martel
Angry men with pointy things sent to secure a foreign city are pretty much alike anywhere. That's what I've heard. So far nothing's convinced me… — Sherwood Smith
If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I ask of a… — Philip Pullman
A good working definition of fanaticism is that you are so convinced of your views and policies that you are sure that anyone who opposed… — Orson Scott Card
It's a wise person, I guess, who knows he's dumb, and an honest person who knows he's a liar. And it's a dumb person, I… — Joseph Heller
What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot. — Werner Herzog
The great spiritual task facing me is to so fully trust that I belong to God that I can be free in the world--free to… — Henri Nouwen
Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are… — Albert Camus
When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...]. — Simone de Beauvoir
It occured to her that pleasure, no matter how deep, was a ghostly, ephemeral thing. Love might make the world go round, but she was… — Stephen King
Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate… — Mortimer Adler
We do not want to be beginners [at prayer]. but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners,… — Thomas Merton
Convinced myself, I seek not to convince. — Edgar Allan Poe
He's convinced most human adults do not know how to play anymore and that playing is one of the best ways to think. Franky finds… — William Wharton
As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything. — Malcolm X
My belief in free speech is so profound that I am seldom tempted to deny it to the other fellow. Nor do I make any… — H. L. Mencken
I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun. — George Plimpton
You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open… — Peter F. Hamilton
I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we… — Maya Angelou
In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless. — Sigmund Freud
According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, composed, unflappable, manly,… — Jonathan Stroud
I'm convinced true fulfillment is living in God's world one day at a time, savoring it, leaving today's disapointments behind and borrowing no troubles from… — Olive Ann Burns
Anyone who thinks that the Communist regimes of Central Europe are exclusively the work of criminals is overlooking a basic truth: The criminal regimes were… — Milan Kundera
If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live. — John F. Kennedy

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