Quotes with convictions

  • The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
  • Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.
  • Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
    Original: Überzeugungen sind gefährlichere Feinde der Wahrheit als Lügen.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Epictetus It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Bryant H. McGill A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • James Freeman Clarke All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
    James Freeman Clarke
    American theologian and author (1810 - 1888)
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  • Bill Hybels Authentic Christians are persons who stand apart from others. Their character seems deeper, their ideas fresher, their spirit softer, their courage greater, their leadership stronger, their concerns wider, their compassion more genuine and their convictions more concrete.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Bono Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • John Updike Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Thomas Szasz Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • James Freeman Clarke He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
    James Freeman Clarke
    American theologian and author (1810 - 1888)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Frederick the Great I love opposition that has convictions.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • Albert Einstein It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
    The Human Side (1954)
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Douglas Macarthur Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Winston Churchill Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never - in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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