Conviction Quotes - Page 39

• Of all the things we are wrong about, error might well top the list ... We are wrong about what it means to be wrong. Far from being a sign of intellectual inferiority, the capacity to err is crucial to human cognition. Far from being a moral flaw, it is inextricable from some of our most humane and honourable qualities: empathy, optimism, imagination, conviction, and courage. And far from being a mark of indifference or intolerance, wrongness is a vital part of how we learn and change. Thanks to error, we can revise our understanding of ourselves and amend our ideas about the world.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Mean, Errors, Ideas

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• Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates... Such, however, is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing, boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal, leopard, wolf, and snake, which they severally resembled.

  Lewis Carroll

  Son, Men, Snakes

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• One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Speaks Out, Speak, Inaction

  Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”

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• Solitude is one of our great superpowers... Solitude is the key to being able to make effective decisions and then having the courage of convictions to stand behind those decisions.

  Susan Cain

  Keys, Decision, Solitude

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• Faith affects the whole of man's nature. It commences with the conviction of the mind based on adequate evidence; it continues in the confidence of the heart or emotions based on conviction, and it is crowned in the consent of the will by means of which the conviction and confidence are expressed in conduct.

  William Griffith Thomas

  Heart, Mean, Men

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• Freedom is like holding a small bird. If you squeeze it too hard, you will kill it. But if you don't hold it firmly enough, it will fly away. Indeed, freedom can be both fragile and elusive, and so-as the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum so powerfully reminds us-it requires our eternal vigilance, our willingness, our ability, our conviction to stand up for that which we think is right.

  Alex Kotlowitz

  Thinking, Museums, Bird

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• No one really can have any idea if it's luck or happenstance or timing or fate or the universe or just smart choices that grant you a good life, a happy one. All we can do is decide to own our choices no matter what, to honor them and ourselves as best we can. That whatever is within our control (and there is plenty that is not) is ours. Mine. Responsibility. Conviction.

  Allison Winn Scotch

  Good Life, Smart, Responsibility

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• The truly educated man is not a man who knows a bit of everything, not even the man who knows all the details of all subjects (if such a thing were possible): the “whole man” in fact, may have little detailed knowledge of facts and theories...but he will be truly in touch with the centre. He will not be in doubt about his basic convictions, about his view on the meaning and purpose of his life. He may not be able to explain these matters in words, but the conduct of his life will show a certain sureness of touch which stems from this inner clarity.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Men, Views, Doubt

  "Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered". Book by E. F. Schumacher, 1973.

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• I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.

  Emile Zola

  Despair, Triumph, Intense

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• American federalism was the embodiment of political tolerance and decentralization - the expression of the liberal conviction that society can manage itself and needs no central plan.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Expression, Political, Tolerance

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• [T]he isolationism of the Left stems from the conviction that America is bad for the rest of the world, whereas the isolationism of the Right is based on the belief that the rest of the world is bad for America.

  Norman Podhoretz

  America, World, Belief

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• The feeling for what ought and ought not to be grows and dies like a tree, and no fertilizer of any kind will do much good. What the individual can do is give a fine example, and have the courage to firmly uphold ethical convictions in a society of cynics. I have for a long time tried to conduct myself this way, with varying success.

  Albert Einstein

  Long, Giving, Tree

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• In our timidity and our shoddy opportunism we are always stirred when a man appears on the horizon willing to stake his all on a conviction.

  Clyde S. Kilby

  Men, Horizon, Stakes

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• Convictions are a matter of choice, not force.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Choices, Matter, Force

  Charles R. Swindoll (1992). “Inspirational Writings of Charles R. Swindoll”, Arrowood Press

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• A mental picturing of that which we want, with the complete acceptance and the conviction that it is ours now, will bring it quickly.

  Lester Levenson

  Acceptance, Want

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• I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!

  Mother Jones

  Country, Voice, Needs

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• There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Kind, Huge, Helplessness

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• It is my conviction that it is the intuitive, spiritual aspects of us humans-the inner voice-that gives us the 'knowing,' the peace, and the direction to go through the windstorms of life, not shattered but whole, joining in love and understanding.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Spiritual, Voice, Knowing

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• So we are mocked by this world when we speak of God's coming judgment against all sin, and when we plead that sinners come to the Savior to avoid Hell. But we can't give up because our task is irksome, or because we are mocked. Neither can we live self-indulgent lives, because our convictions aren't based on some man-made and fallible calculations. They are based on the immutability of the Word of God.

  Ray Comfort

  Giving Up, Men, Self

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• I must honestly declare my conviction that, since the days of the Reformation, there never has been so much profession of religion without practice, so much talking about God without walking with Him, so much hearing God's words without doing them.

  J. C. Ryle

  Talking, Practice, Hearing

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.384, Letcetera Publishing

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• Certainly the affirmative pursuit of one's convictions about the ultimate mystery of the universe and man's relation to it is placed beyond the reach of law. Government may not interfere with organized or individual expressions of belief or disbelief. Propagation of belief - or even of disbelief - in the supernatural is protected, whether in church or chapel, mosque or synagogue, tabernacle or meeting-house.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Men, Expression, Law

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• I don't think that my particular religious convictions should be held against me in this campaign any more than the Prime Minister's lack of convictions should be held against her.

  Tony Abbott

  Religious, Thinking, Campaigns

  "Abbott agrees to debate Julia Gillard on economy". Interview with Alexandra Kirk, www.abc.net.au. August 17, 2010.

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• It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

  George Eliot

  Mind, Well Known, Coarse

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.300

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• Integrity means that if our private life were suddenly exposed, we'd have no reason to be ashamed or embarrassed. Integrity means that our outward life is consistent with our inner convictions.

  Billy Graham

  Integrity, Mean, Life Is

  Billy Graham (2007). “The Journey: Living by Faith in an Uncertain World”, p.189, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When a man is not deeply convicted of sin, it is a pretty sure sign that he has not truly repented. Experience has taught me that men who have very slight conviction of sin sooner or later lapse back into their old life.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Men, Lapses, Taught

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