Conviction Quotes - Page 21

• My dad always, he helped me by not helping me. He always said, being a producer, it was all about conviction.

  Thomas Langmann

  Dad, Helping, Said

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• I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Democracy, Library, Resources

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• Truth is not a matter of argumentation and conviction; it is not the outcome of opinion.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Truth, Outcomes, Matter

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1956). “Commentaries on Living”, p.127, Penguin Books India

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• Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Men, Profound, Action

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1872). “Joseph Mazzini His Life, Writings, and Political Principles”, p.167

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• Democracy has no convictions for which people would be willing to stake their lives.

  Ernst Hanfstaengl

  Military, Democracies Have, People

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• Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life's impermanence.

  Meredith L. Young-Sowers

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Life Changing

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• I wish to preface my reflections by saying that I am conducting this prayer service and am speaking to you now with great reluctance. I did not seek to enter any controversy and I don't relish being part of one. But I have given this matter a great deal of thought and prayer, which has led me to the conviction that God is calling me to speak out and conduct these prayers.

  Thomas J. Paprocki

  Prayer, Reflection, Speaks Out

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• The scientist has to take 95 per cent of his subject on trust. He has to because he can't possibly do all the experiments, therefore he has to take on trust the experiments all his colleagues and predecessors have done. Whereas a mathematician doesn't have to take anything on trust. Any theorem that's proved, he doesn't believe it, really, until he goes through the proof himself, and therefore he knows his whole subject from scratch. He's absolutely 100 per cent certain of it. And that gives him an extraordinary conviction of certainty, and an arrogance that scientists don't have.

  Christopher Zeeman

  Believe, Science, Giving

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• I think Dr. Ben Carson is a unique political personality. He's what we call a conviction politician. He actually believes in what he says. Here's a fellow who had been a neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins for over 30 years. Babies conjoined at the head, he is the one that did that. He's a superstar. Ben Carson steps away from medicine, looks at the political environment around him, and he is aghast at what he sees.

  Daniel Henninger

  Baby, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Conviction is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment, or by hating them, as convinced men have hated, say, Darwin and Freud, as agents of some devil.

  John Ciardi

  Hate, Men, Devil

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• Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once learned that belief was sort of an impression made on our mind, and that the softer it is the less resistant t.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ignorance, Simplicity, Mind

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• Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Warrior, Enemy

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• The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What looks like a giving hand is often a holding on for dear life. Take away our holy duties and you leave our lives puny and meaningless. There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self Esteem, Humility, Hands

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without.

  Eric Hoffer

  Attitude, Doubt, Positive Atheism

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that doesn't seem to owe anything to evidence or reason, but which, nevertheless, he feels as totally compelling and convincing. We doctors refer to such a belief as 'faith'.

  Richard Dawkins

  Doctors, Belief, Patient

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our lives into some other channel. Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end?

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Wind, Agents, May

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.4165, Delphi Classics

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• [The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation--and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear…which binds together all humanity--the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.

  Joseph Conrad

  Dream, Art, Pain

  Joseph Conrad (2007). “The Portable Conrad”, p.48, Penguin

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• The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.

  Norbert Wiener

  Simple, Progress, Weakness

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.47, Da Capo Press

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• A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Strength, Strong, Speak

  "God and the State". Book by Mikhail Bakunin, 1883.

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• The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.

  Clark Moustakas

  Ideas, Feelings, Individuality

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• Don't take what someone else has made sure of and pretend it's you yourself that have made sure of it till it's yours absolutely by conviction. It's stealing to take it and hypocrisy and you'll fall into a hole.

  Emily Carr

  Fall, Hypocrisy, Stealing

  Emily Carr (2009). “Klee Wyck”, p.10, D & M Publishers

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• One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards... set by the critic's long-practiced taste and by his conviction that only those innovations will be significant which promote the established direction of advanced art.

  Leo Steinberg

  Art, Standards Set, Long

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• Now, my friend, I beg you to consider that this blindness and unyielding hardness is the very core of your iniquity, and to be convinced that you are thus blind and stupid is true conviction of sin.

  Archibald Alexander

  Stupid, Unyielding, Sin

  Archibald Alexander (1857). “Practical Truths”

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• The key to success is not purely who's the smartest, who's the best, but also who can say with conviction, "I deserve it." The entire concept is wrapped up in one phrase: "Why not me?

  Donny Deutsch

  Success, Keys, Why Not

  Donny Deutsch, Peter Knobler (2009). “Often Wrong, Never in Doubt: Unleash the Business Rebel Within”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Champion, Humanity

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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