Convinces Quotes

54 Convinces quotes by 48 unique authors

Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there… — Anna Julia Cooper
I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is behind and within… — Louis Agassiz
Strength is a capacity for endurance. One of the dividends of suffering is the universal discovery the we posses a strength within us we never… — Dennis Wholey
Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can pick stocks just as well,… — Peter Lynch
Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will… — Mahatma Gandhi
For me, it's owning the fact that I have a sensitive disposition along with a rampant imagination that makes up stories and convinces me they're… — Zosia Mamet
We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that it is one of the… — George Balanchine
The ministry of mercy, then, is the best advertising a church can have. It convinces a community that this church provides people with actions for… — Timothy Keller
He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he's telling the truth. He just doesn't recognize truth or falsehood. — Robert Kennedy
Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces. — Paul Claudel
I always think a great speaker convinces us not by force of reasoning, but because he is visibly enjoying the beliefs he wants us to… — William Butler Yeats
Teenagers also sometimes think, 'What's the use? The world will soon be blown all apart and come to an end.' That feeling comes from fear,… — Boyd K. Packer
Being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on. — Philip Roth
In reality, it's much easier not to smoke or eat chocolate than to do so. It's your mind that convinces you otherwise. — Wayne Dyer
Just reading about the various opinions concerning the conduct of the recent championship matches convinces me that the only thing to which two chessplayers could… — Arpad Elo
The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The photographer’s vision convinces us to the degree that the photographer hides his hand. — John Szarkowski
I love to play with language; make it do tricks, turn a word inside out to see if it's got a hidden meaning tucked away… — Larry Gelbart
Air travel reminds us who we are. It's the means by which we recognize ourselves as modern. The process removes us from the world and… — Don DeLillo
If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy… — Idries Shah
It is the mind that weaves the dream of life, it convinces us that what we see is what is apparent and what is real,… — Frederick Lenz
You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is… — Stanley Crouch
The Democrats' ads convince me that Governor Romney can't sing, but his record convinces me he knows how to lead, and I think you know… — Artur Davis
A well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our reason, but does… — Napoleon Bonaparte
An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with… — George Bernard Shaw

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