Conviction Quote by Samuel Butler

“The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.”

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Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

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I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to…

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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

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Spare the rod and spoil the child.

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

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“we must judge men not so much by what they, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to…

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If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.

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Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.

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“Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed…

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Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

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Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with…

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Once you pull the trigger, you've got to throw balls aggressively and with conviction.

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I've been around in public life for a long time. I think people know what I stand for. They know that I have strong…

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“Desert are you, deluge are you, in a crowd of fakes, only truth is you.”

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For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice,…

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'Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy cannot live…

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No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts…

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Beneath everything else, North and West, there ran a profound, unvoiced, almost subconscious conviction that the [American] nation was going to go on growing-in…

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