Conviction Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

The passions often engender their contraries.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.

— Mikhail Lermontov

The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.

— Denis Diderot

Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

— Nicolas Chamfort

You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

— Alexander Herzen

Passions make men live, knowledge merely makes them last

— Chamfort

The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

— Sean O'Casey

Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

— Thomas Hobbes