Conviction Quote by Peter Medawar

There is a strength of conviction that can only come from being 100% wrong.

— Stephen Schneider

What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room…

— Shirin Ebadi

When someone repeatedly insists that something isn't true, it increases the likelihood that it is.

— Amy Dickinson

A conviction is in the nature of a verdict and judgment, and therefore it must be precise and certain.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.

— Jane Austen

“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

Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

— Soren Kierkegaard

This is how proofiness works. The assertion is more important than the evidence itself.

— David Corn

“Because it’s very easy to fall victim to confirmation bias, try focusing only on data that invalidates your hypothesis before looking for data that…

— Product School

Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.

— Gregory Maguire

No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect.

— Erich Maria Remarque

[One's] inability to invalidate your hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true.

— Carl Sagan