Faith Quote by G.I. Gurdjieff

“To have opinions is inevitable, is natural; to have convictions is less so. Each time I meet someone who has convictions, I wonder what…

— Emil M. Cioran

Any positive thinker is compelled to see everything in the light of his own convictions.

— Antoinette Brown Blackwell

“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

“[...] the diversity of our opinions, consequently, does not arise from some being endowed with a larger share of reason than others, but solely…

— René Descartes

“A person who holds strong convictions might appear inflexible, impolite, or exceptionally obtuse, when they are merely direct.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Nothing crushes in the person his sense of self such as him following the common opinions, and be unable to make criticizing positions against…

— Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi

“About some things—about many things!—we believe that people should have not open minds but settled convictions. We cannot make progress intellectually or socially until…

— Alan Jacobs

“The highest freedom of mind comes from becoming non-judgmental.”

— Debasish Mridha

Toleration of people who differ in convictions and habits requires a residual awareness of the complexity of truth and the possibility of opposing view…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“Just as 'certainty' and 'truth' can exist independently, so can judgment and intellect.”

— Garry Fitchett

“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

“The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of…

— Bertrand Russell