Convinced Quotes - Page 25

• And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of consciousness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Giving Up, Men, Roots

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• I am convinced that much more emphasis should be placed on history. The purpose of history is to learn how human beings react when exposed to the danger of wounds or death.

  George S. Patton

  Purpose, Danger, Should

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• Earlier in my life I thought the things that mattered were the things that you could see, like your car, your house, your wealth, your property, your office. But as I've grown older I've become convinced that the things that matter most are the things that you can't see -- the love you share with others, your inner purpose, your comfort with who you are.

  Jimmy Carter

  Love You, Car, Office

  "Jimmy Carter: Role Model" by Ken Dychtwald, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2015.

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• When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Hate, Men, Stupidity

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• No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Love Is, Needs, Elsewhere

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.111, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Simplicity, Islam

  Young India article on September 23, 1924. "My Jail Experiences". Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Volume 29, p. 133, 1960.

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• I was secretly convinced that with such a marvel one would be able to write anything, from novels to encyclopedias, and letters whose supernatural power would surpass any postal limitations--a letter written with that pen would reach the most remote corners of the world, even that unknowable place to which my father said my mother had gone and from where she would never return.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Mother, Father, Writing

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.40, Penguin

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• This thing about looking for someone less different... It only really worked, he realized, if you were convinced that being you wasn't so bad in the first place.

  Nick Hornby

  Different, Firsts, Ifs

  Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.222, Penguin

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• Are you the dart?" he said. "Are you the knife? The fuse?" She said (though he wasn't convinced): "My deane, my poppet, I am too green to walk into a public place and do something bad.

  Gregory Maguire

  Knives, Green, Said

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• Reading it the night before, I'd wondered if it would be like that for me-if in one moment, I would finally understand her, know her, and understand the role I'd played in her dying. But I wasn't convinced enlightenment struck like lightining.

  John Green

  Reading, Night, Dying

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.149, Penguin

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• She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.

  Jane Austen

  Should, Darcy, Happy With Him

  Jane Austen (1813). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes”, p.149

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• What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Men, Animal, People

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• I am convinced by the events of the last few weeks that nefarious forces of people--unidentified but no less real--are threatening life as we know it, and in fact, may be bent on unraveling the very fabric of our existence.

  Christopher Moore

  Real, People, Events

  Christopher Moore (2009). “A Dirty Job: A Novel”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody, and no unemployment — assuming a certain very moderate amount of sensible organization. This idea shocks the well-to-do, because they are convinced that the poor would not know how to use so much leisure.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Son, Men

  "In praise of idleness: and other essays".

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• Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or the other, real or imaginary. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

  Jane Austen

  Real, Believe, Pride

  "Pride and Prejudice". Book by Jane Austen, January 28, 1813.

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• I'm convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Responsibility, Brain, Disease

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “The Knights of Crystallia: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.29, Macmillan

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• But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled. It continues to wander, aimless, homeless, alone. It cannot be convinced of its safety by any evidence drawn from my waking life.

  Margaret Atwood

  Dream, Self, Safety

  Margaret Atwood (2008). “Moral Disorder and Other Stories”, p.87, Anchor

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• He suddenly became convinced that if he didn’t do something sensible, something to put his mind to some use, then before he knew it he would be wondering round the streets having fights with himself and inviting domestic animals to social occasions too.

  John Boyne

  Fighting, Animal, Mind

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• As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will put up with all sorts of tyranny, poverty, and painful treatment if they're convinced that they'll eventually escape to some resort in the sky where lifeguards are superfluous and the pool never closes. Moreover, the faithful are usually willing to risk their skins in whatever military adventure their government may currently be promoting.

  Tom Robbins

  Military, Believe, Adventure

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.356, Bantam

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• We learn that many great thinkers were convinced that the Bible contained the Ancient Mysteries, but not in the literal words—that the words on the pages were codes, and that the Bible is comprised of heavy-handed and useless story covering up something much more important and interesting. I get the feeling that [Dan Brown] is trying to tell me something, but I am not biting, reader.

  Maureen Johnson

  Interesting, Feelings, Important

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• If you play "I Don't Want To Know" by Fleetwood Mac loud enough -- you can hear Lindsey Buckingham's fingers sliding down the strings of his acoustic guitar. ...And we were convinced that this was the definitive illustration of what we both loved about music; we loved hearing the INSIDE of a song.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Song, Guitar, Illustration

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• My mother is convinced that yellow is a happy color and that a happy girl would get a husband. -Penelope Featherington

  Julia Quinn

  Marriage, Girl, Mother

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• Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy never seek it. It is better to find God on the threshold of despair than to risk our lives in a complacency that has never felt the need of forgiveness. A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless than one that always verges on despair.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Men, Risk

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

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• Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom. Once you were thus convinced, you were foolish to open the door and let anyone in, not all the way in. You risked the hard-won equilibrium, that tranquility that you called peace

  Dean Koontz

  Loneliness, Reflection, Doors

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Good Guy”, p.91, Bantam

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• As teenagers, Marcus had been the muscle and Jake the brains. Marcus had beat up the kids who'd made fun of skinny Jake; Jake had convinced teachers not to punish him. Since then, Marcus had grown a brain (kind of) and Jake had developed muscles. But habits die hard.

  Gena Showalter

  Teacher, Fun, Teenager

  Gena Showalter (2012). “Catch a Mate”, p.238, Harlequin

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