Convinced Quotes - Page 33

• It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was any truth or any principle so irresistibly obvious that all men believed it at once. Time and reason must cooperate with each other to the final establishment of any principle; and therefore those who may happen to be first convinced have not a right to persecute others, on whom conviction operates more slowly. The moral principle of revolutions is to instruct, not to destroy.

  Thomas Paine

  Truth, Men, Principles

  Thomas Paine (1795). “Dissertation on First-principles of Government”, p.36

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• A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must....be undaunted when the going gets tough.

  Ronald Reagan

  Leadership, Being Strong, Determination

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• Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

  Mary Cholmondeley

  Love, Friendship, Positive

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• People are more willing to buy branded goods provided they are persuaded that they are getting value from them. And they need to be convinced of those benefits, in authentic everyday language, without being confronted by corporate-speak. Get it right, and you create a virtuous circle. Get it wrong, and you get punished for it.

  Andrew Curry

  Business, Circles, People

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• The older I get the more I'm convinced that it's the purpose of politicians and journalists to say the world is very simple, whereas it's the purpose of historians to say, 'No! It's very complicated.'
  The job of the historian is to help give people a sense of existence in time, without which we are really not fully human.

  David Cannadine

  Jobs, Simple, History

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• Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

  Thucydides

  Strength, Peace, Military

  Thucydides (1979). “The Speeches of Pericles”, Burns & Oates

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• Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Thank You, Education, Teacher

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.93, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker in this cause. The example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Money, Selfish

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Goal, Historical, May

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural selection before and not after most of them were convinced that evolution had occurred.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Science, Views, Would Be

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• I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.

  Albert Einstein

  Educational, Socialist Economy, Evil

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.35, Open Road Media

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• I am convinced Socialism is the only answer.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Answers, Socialism

  "Historic 32nd congress of Pakistani section of IMT – First Day". www.marxist.com. March 10, 2013.

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• If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it was traveling its way of its own accord on the strength of a resolution taken once and for all. So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.

  Albert Einstein

  Taken, Moon, Men

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• It's a shame, she had me convinced that she could've been a dime. I guess I lost another one to the wintertime.

  Drake

  Relationship, Break Up, Broken Heart

  Song: Come Winter

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• No longer living in fear, my pistol close in hand, Convinced this is my year.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, Hands, Years

  Song: Heartz of Men

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• If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

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• Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky.

  George Carlin

  Religious, Atheist, Men

  "You Are All Diseased". Documentary, Comedy, 1999.

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• When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell. The dungeon was flooded with light and all the bolts and bars and manacles became dust.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Atheist, Wall, Light

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.929, Library of Alexandria

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• I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Life, Happiness, Attitude

  "Lightning Fast Enlightenment: A Journey to the Secrets of Happiness". Book by Jordan S. Metzger, p. 9, 2000.

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• A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happy, Attitude, Men

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• Every mother hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did, and is convinced that her son will never find a wife as good as his father did.

  Martin Andersen Nexø

  Mother Daughter, Honesty, Father

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• I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization.

  George Cayley

  Airplane, Civilization, Progress

  Sir George Cayley (1933). “Aeronautical and miscellaneous note-book (ca. 1799-1826): of Sir George Cayley”

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• We will not regard any great power as necessarily right in a given dispute unless we are convinced of this, yet at the same time we will not view the great powers with perennial suspicion merely on account of their size, their wealth, or their nuclear potential. We will be friends of all, satellites of none.

  Errol Barrow

  Independent, Views, Size

  Errol Walton Barrow (1987). “Speeches by Errol Barrow”, Hansib Publishing (Caribbean), Limited

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• I have watched all the work going on there, and the more I see of it the more I am convinced that Mendelism has nothing to do with evolution.

  Ernest MacBride

  Science, Evolution

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• Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe. I am convinced that if you follow closely the natural light of your spirit, you will see ... that all the religions in the world are only human inventions and that everything your religion teaches you and forces you to believe as supernatural and divine is at heart only error, lie, illusion and trickery.

  Jean Meslier

  Atheist, Lying, Believe

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