Convinced Quotes - Page 3

• I am increasingly convinced that technological culture is the entire root of women's liberation.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Roots, Culture, Liberation

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2008). “The Vorkosigan Companion”, p.13, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.

  Thucydides

  Democracy, Empires, Incapable

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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• If we repeatedly read the Bible without the help of the Holy Spirit, it tends to reinforce our own prejudices and rock-hard doctrinal positions. We end up merely finding ammunition for what we already believe. We become so spiritually proud, so convinced of our own positions, that the Spirit is hindered in helping us to grow in the things of God.

  Jim Cymbala

  Bible, God, Faith

  FaceBook post by Pastor Jim Cymbala from Oct 03, 2015

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• I am convinced the most unfortunate people are those who would make an art of love. It sours other effort. Of all artists, they are certainly the most wretched.

  Norman Mailer

  Love, Art, People

  Norman Mailer (1992). “Advertisements for Myself”, p.181, Harvard University Press

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• I am convinced that the moment is coming when, with its message of eternal, universal values, it will come to the aid of our society. For in these words: "Thou shalt not kill; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," lie those very moral principles that will enable us to survive even the most critical situations.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Lying, Principles, Our Society

  "Against the Grain : An Autobiography" by Boris Yeltsin, (p. 251), 1990.

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• A man must be himself convinced if he is to convince others. The prophet must be his own disciple, or he will make none. Enthusiasm is contagious: belief creates belief.

  George Henry Lewes

  Men, Enthusiasm, Belief

  "The Principles of Success in Literature". The Fortnightly Review, Volume 1, www.gutenberg.org. 1865.

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• China was the most optimistic place I'd ever been. Everybody I met was pretty much convinced that their children would have it better than their parents had had it. It was like being in America in the 1950's, with this deep optimism about the future because everything was getting better, and that fascinated me.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Optimistic, America

  Source: collider.com

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• Early on in my life I comprehended that death is the most tragic event in our life. Events of early Monday July 14, 1958 [Coup in Iraq] had convinced me that hate is the most destructive force in our life.

  Ala Bashir

  Life, Monday, Hate

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• The main problem with pacifism is that it doesn’t work in all situations. The main problem with pacifists is that they’re convinced it does.

  Burt Prelutsky

  Doe, Problem, Pacifism

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• Although people who had achieved a great deal in science and technology talked
  of the inscrutability of creativity, I was not convinced and disbelieved them immediately and without argument. Why should everything but creativity be open
  to scrutiny? What kind of process can this be which unlike all others is not subject
  to control?…What can be more alluring than the discovery of the nature of
  talented thought and converting this thinking from occasional and fleeting flashes
  into a powerful and controllable fire of knowledge.

  Genrich Altshuller

  Powerful, Creativity, Technology

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• A man in the wrong may more easily be convinced than one half right.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Half, May

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1961). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II: 1822-1826”, p.110, Harvard University Press

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• I do not believe that a moral philosophy can ever be founded on a scientific basis. … The valuation of life and all its nobler expressions can only come out of the soul’s yearning toward its own destiny. Every attempt to reduce ethics to scientific formulas must fail. Of that I am perfectly convinced.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Philosophy, Believe

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.230, Princeton University Press

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• I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Laughter, Mankind, Regeneration

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2012). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.470, JHU Press

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• The method of authority will always govern the mass of mankind; and those who wield the various forms of organized force in the state will never be convinced that dangerous reasoning ought not to be suppressed in some way.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Way, Authority, States

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.121, Indiana University Press

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• ... women learned one important lesson--namely, that it is impossible for the best of men to understand women's feelings or the humiliation of their position. When they asked us to be silent on our question during the War, and labor for the emancipation of the slave, we did so, and gave five years to his emancipation and enfranchisement.... I was convinced, at the time, that it was the true policy. I am now equally sure that it was a blunder.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  War, Men, Years

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• When the heart is won, the understanding is easily convinced.

  Charles Simmons

  Heart, Understanding

  Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.236

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• At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable. Heaven forfend me from Lamarck nonsense of a 'tendency to progression', 'adaptations from the slow willing of animals', &c! But the conclusions I am led to are not widely different from his; though the means of change are wholly so. I think I have found out (here's presumption!) the simple way by which species become exquisitely adapted to various ends.

  Charles Darwin

  Mean, Simple, Thinking

  Charles Darwin (1896). “Charles Darwin's Works: The life and letters of Charles Darwin... ed. by his son, Francis Darwin. 2v”

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• When I am convinced of any principle, it is only an idea which strikes more strongly upon me. When I give the preference to one set of arguments above another, I do nothing but decide from my feeling concerning the superiority of their influence.

  David Hume

  Ideas, Giving, Feelings

  David Hume (2015). “A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.87, 谷月社

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• I am convinced that anyone can be a great writer . . . if he can only . . . tell the naked truth about himself and other people. That, a little technique with words and the willingness to bare heart, soul and body are really all it takes.

  Clive Barnes

  Heart, Soul And Body, People

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• I'm more and more convinced that life is a dream. What has happened to me is surely a dream.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Life, Dream, Happened

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• I am convinced that nothing will happen to me, for I know the greatness of the task for which Providence has chosen me.

  Adolf Hitler

  Greatness, Tasks, Comedy

  Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939”

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• Churchill is the very type of a corrupt journalist. There is not a worse prostitute in politics. He himself has written that it'sunimaginable what can be done in war with the help of lies. He's an utterly amoral repulsive creature. I'm convinced that he has his place of refuge ready beyond the Atlantic. He obviously won't seek sanctuary in Canada. In Canada he'd be beaten up. He'll go to his friends the Yankees. As soon as this damnable winter is over, we'll remedy all that.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Lying, Winter

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• But having made my decision as Commander-in-Chief based on what I am convinced is our national security interests, I will seek authorization for the use of force from the American people's representatives in Congress.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Government, Long

  "Obama at War". "Frontline", www.pbs.org.

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• The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first page of a manuscript. If this is true, then the editorial system that prevails today stinks. And let's start reforming it.

  Diane Wakoski

  Editors, Needs, Pages

  Diane Wakoski (1980). “Toward a new poetry”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• A parent who from his own childhood experience is convinced of the value of fairy tales will have no difficulty in answering his child's questions; but an adult who thinks these tales are only a bunch of lies had better not try telling them; he won't be able to related them in a way which would enrich the child's life.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Children, Lying, Thinking

  Bruno Bettelheim (1976). “The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales”, Knopf

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