Conviction Quote by Elizabeth Goudge

“All that rational thinking had to be thrown out the window. This was why he liked irrational thinking so much better. It took less…

— Abigail Roux

“There was within him a deep unexpressed conviction that all would be well, but that one must not trust to this and still less…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He went on to say that conclusions arrived at through reasoning had very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.…

— Carlos Castaneda

“His actions were a total contradiction of what thinks , in that way its a way hard to believe him...”

— aks

“Moreover, he felt vaguely that what he called his convictions were not only ignorance but were a way of thinking that made the knowledge…

— Leo Tolstoy

“he sometimes felt himself to be a painfully prosaic person, but by the same token he knew he was incurably sane.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Conviction, far from being based upon reason, is the enemy of reason; because rationality does not change, while convictions do, all the time.”

— Idries Shah

“It is quite remarkable how firmly belief and conviction stand in the way of reasoning,”

— Till Roenneberg

“He was perpetually on guard against the ways that abstract thinking (especially thinking about your own thinking) can draw you away from something more…

— James Ryerson

“He detested objective truths, the burden of argument, sustained reasoning. He disliked demonstrating, he wanted to convince no one. Others are a dialectician’s invention.”

— Emil Cioran

“A true rationalist ought to be effective in the real world.”

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“(...) rationality is a very narrowly restricted skill.”

— Noam Chomsky