Conviction Quotations

Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.

For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, the value of life is absolute, with no concessions. It's not negotiable.

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.

The only way people can really be excellent is with truth, so you have to have a CFO who will have the intellectual capacity and conviction to tell you you're wrong and try to support that with data.

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal

Emancipation, to be of any value to the slave, must be the free, voluntary act of the master, performed from a conviction of its propriety.

Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.

The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew themselves unable to bear it. It is the sediment, not the wave, of a sex. It is the antithesis of that highest and sweetest mystery - conviction by submission, and conquest by sacrifice.

One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect...geometry should be ranked, not with arithmetic, which is purely aprioristic, but with mechanics.

If trustees feel it is in their charity's interest to pay high salaries to attract talented people, then they should have the courage of their conviction and explain their decisions publicly.

A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.

Love of, and respect for, the humble routine of everyday life and its creatures was the only moral commandment which carried conviction when I was a child.

For many Americans, Osama bin Laden is the paradigmatic Muslim, an absurd conviction for anyone who has lived with Muslims.

My dad always, he helped me by not helping me. He always said, being a producer, it was all about conviction.

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

Fast-paced from start to finish, 'The Honourable Schoolboy' is fired by le Carre's conviction regarding evil done and its consequences.

With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.

There is a very deep conviction in the heart of the people who work in al-Jazeera that if it changes its editorial line, it will very quickly lose its audience. Al-Jazeera has its own style; it has more than 3,500 employees, and I don't think anyone will have the attitude of changing it because they will lose.

Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the child a deep, almost somatic conviction that there is meaning in what they are doing.

Both President Obama and I shared the conviction that territorial and maritime disputes in the Asia Pacific region should be settled peacefully based on international law. We affirm that arbitration is an open, friendly and peaceful approach to seeking a just and durable solution.

It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.

Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account.

Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

Sexiness is about being an individual and having conviction about what that is.

I have always held the conviction that American citizens should keep as much of their hard-earned money as possible.

I think it's the person's conviction that really carries a person.

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.

I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction.

It is my conviction that those who disregard the reality of Heaven will ultimately find themselves on the wrong side of history.

Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and the other, the conviction that such equal opportunity will most advance civilization.

It is my conviction that secrets are more costly in the long run than honesty.

How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are going to make painters by painting ourselves, and by showing the paintings of others. By working frankly from our convictions, we are going to make them work frankly from theirs.

It is my conviction that marriage is such a good idea, only God could have thought of it.

I do not choose characters because I think, 'Wow, that woman is so strong.' I chose these characters with utmost conviction because I think they were realistic enough to exist, and I really liked the scripts.

Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

What sort of job can you hold in America in which it is safe to hold the personal conviction that same-sex marriage is wrong? The answer: there is no such job. Except Democratic presidential candidate in 2008. Then you're fine.

I don't think my religious convictions should be held against me

In a sense, the god we trust politically is a slightly different god than the one we bring into the fray when we enter a rock concert. One of the things I can say with absolute conviction is that I worship that god.

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs

Look at all the misery in the Middle East, for example. All these countries have Islam in common, and far too few dare to criticize Islam as an ideology, and what it's doing to these countries. I know I might get punched in the face for saying these things, but my conviction is that less religion in the world would be better.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.

I'm a man of convictions. If you press me about how I feel about an issue, you're going to see my convictions.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

Mainstream Jewish intellectuals became 'pro'-Israel after the June 1967 war when Israel became the U.S.A.' s strategic asset in the Middle East, i.e., when it was safe and reaped benefits. To credit them with ideological conviction is, in my opinion, very naive.

There is nothing we could do of greater importance than to have fortified in our individual lives an unshakable conviction that Jesus is the Christ, the living Son of the living God.

Live in the very soul of expectation of better things, in the conviction that something large, grand, and beautiful will await you if your efforts are intelligent, if your mind is kept in a creative condition and you struggle upward to your goal.

The only times during my religious instruction I remember hearing God's name invoked with any sincere conviction at all was in the oft-repeated and breathtakingly chauvinistic claim that Israel's 'miraculous' military victories over much-stronger enemies proved that He was ever on Zion's side.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

Political activists of all stripes are usually a wacky bunch, and never more so than in a system like Britain's, where power is effected via the quiescence of the electorate as much as its convictions.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Religion is not theory - it is life. It is not intellectual conviction - it is divine humanity, and nothing else.

George W. Bush is not preoccupied with his legacy - nor with his popularity. He never has been. He has always led based on core conviction and strong principles and has believed that time and distance would allow for context.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

When Christians say God has been talking to them about something, it simply means they have a strong inner conviction or feeling that God has made His will known to them.

We believe that Pope's conviction was unjustifiable and wrong,

We believe that based on the psychological report, that (the sentence) was not an appropriate finding. We're also going to appeal the kidnapping conviction and the sentence on that. So, if we're successful, he would be serving the five-year sentence on the gross sexual imposition. If not, he'll be serving 15 years.

To move ahead you need to believe in yourself...have conviction in your beliefs and the confidence to execute those beliefs.

We know we haven't got much chance of the league but what we have depends on us winning in Barcelona. We need to have the conviction that we can do it and in the dressing room the feeling is there.

People will judge you according to your own convictions.

Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can't have it both ways.

But then books, as I'm sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action. Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already. You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated. A book, as it were, closes the book.

What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power?

Co-opted convictions will always betray you.

No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.

It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.

The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.

If you don't have your conviction you have to put your money where your mouth is.

I am a fairly go-with-the-flow guy. Don't get me wrong, I have convictions.

We want the drug conviction question taken off the financial aid application.

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

We forget that the accumulation of knowledge and the holding of convictions must finally result in the application of that knowledge and those convictions to life itself.

Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.

The fact that I may not vote for conviction doesn't matter, as long as there is justice,

There is a willingness on the part of investors to buy premium names in anticipation of a recovery, but I really think there isn't a lot of conviction on the part of buyers or sellers.

I have the courage of my convictions.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another.

This provides some conviction that China's economy is still growing very fast.

For some time now she has had the conviction that life is about to change if only because it must. . . .

There are times in the life of nations when they feel confident that they can take on the world, that they are capable of meeting any challenge. One reason such a mind-set is important is that it creates an intolerance for laziness, for shoddy products, for open corruption, and for the usual excuses. When people have a strong conviction that they can achieve the possibilities of the future, it makes them less tolerant of impediments in their way to it.

We're seeing the reality of a market that does not have any great conviction. Anyone who expected a linear, 'We're off to the races' kind of tone after last week was mistaken.

Many just don't want a conviction on a drug charge, even a misdemeanor, because it can affect their employability or ability to get financial aid.

One pillar was the conviction that God grants life as an inalienable right, and they fought so that pillar would not be toppled by tyrants.

My guess is it may be harder to bring about a conviction after this ruling.

Maybe it would have been a murder conviction instead of a capital murder conviction if this had been disclosed.

Only the person having firm conviction and iron volition can attain strength and energy. At no stage of Karma does he ever hesitate.

I wouldn't dare speculate why. I know he's a good thinker and he's a man of conviction.