Quotes with conviction

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  • George Eliot I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Lord Chesterfield If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Brooks Atkinson In the 1920s dramatists attacked their subjects as if the inequities could be resolved. Some of the traditional optimism of America lurked behind most of the early plays. But not now. There is no conviction now that the problem will be solved.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Benjamin Todd Jealous In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.
    Benjamin Todd Jealous
    American civic leader and politician (1973 - )
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  • Arthur Cohn It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.
    Arthur Cohn
    American film producer (1927 - )
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  • Albert Einstein It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but murder.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Adam Weishaupt It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Atom Egoyan It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Claude M. Bristol It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
    Claude M. Bristol
    American writer
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  • Heywood Broun Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.
    Heywood Broun
    American Journalist, Novelist (1888 - 1939)
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  • John Wesley Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that ''God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself,'' but a sure trust and confidence that Christ died for my sins, that He loved me and gave Himself for me.
    John Wesley
    British preacher (1703 - 1791)
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  • Blaise Pascal Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Adam Clayton Powell Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.
    Adam Clayton Powell
    American politician and pastor (1908 - 1972)
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  • Novalis My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
    Novalis
    German poet and writer (ps. van Georg van Hardenberg) (1772 - 1801)
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  • George Eliot My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Arthur Keith My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Samuel Johnson No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Boris Johnson Not even Mr Blair has been able to erode the unions conviction that we all have a right to a minimum wage… Both the minimum wage and the Social Charter would palpably destroy jobs.
    Lend Me Your Ears p387
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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