Convinces Quotes
54 Convinces quotes by 48 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.
— Paul Claudel
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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
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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
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Being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on.
— Philip Roth
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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
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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
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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
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The photographer’s vision convinces us to the degree that the photographer hides his hand.
— John Szarkowski
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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