Quotes of Conviction - somelinesforyou

“ It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" — not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope. ”

- Paul Goodman

“ There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. ”

- Alfred North Whitehead

“ Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ Opinions are made to be changed - or how is the truth to be got at. ”

- Lord Byron

“ When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me. ”

- Simone De Beauvoir

“ I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father. ”

- Lisa Marie Presley

“ A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided. ”

- Anthony Robbins

“ A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. ”

- David Hume

“ Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions. ”

- Francis C. Kelley

“ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it. ”

- Edgar Allan Poe

“ The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world. ”

- Max Born

“ Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ Facts do not "speak for themselves." They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. ”

- Thomas Sowell

“ There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters. ”

- Natalie Clifford Barney

“ Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his. ”

- Franklin P. Jones

“ Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. ”

- Bible

“ These, then, are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create that fact. ”

- William James

“ Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth. ”

- Charles Anderson Dana

“ To be a good model, I'd need a lot more confidence... and more confidence to be more bare. ”

- Jill Hennessy

“ Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. ”

- Katherine Mansfield

“ All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. ”

- Galileo Galilei

“ Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions — it only guarantees equality of opportunity. ”

- Irving Kristol

“ Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. ”

- Henri Poincare

“ The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool. ”

- Frank Garbutt

“ I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible. ”

- Oscar Wilde
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