Conviction Quotes

Belief is better than anything else and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.

~ Robert Frost

The peak of tolerance is most readily achieved by those who are not burdened with convictions.

~ Alexander Chase

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.

~ Robert Bolton

Every man who attacks my belief diminishes in some degree my confidence in it and therefore makes me uneasy and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

~ Samuel Johnson

Penetrating so many secrets we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless calmly licking its chops.

~ H. L. Mencken

Believe not your own brother - believe instead your own blind eye.

~ Russian Proverb

Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter it's the belief that counts.

~ Robertson Davies

I love an opposition that has convictions.

~ Frederick The Great

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

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

~ Bishop Francis Kelly

The best lack all conviction while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

~ William Butler Yeats

(Conviction) is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment or by hating them as convinced men have hated say Darwin and Freud as agents of some devil.

~ John Ciardi

Those who serve a cause are not those who love that cause. They are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it - except in the case of the very purest and they are rare.

~ Simone Weil

The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

~ William Warburton

Every dogma has its day.

~ Abraham Rotstein

A man can believe in a considerable deal of rubbish and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

~ Norman Douglas

Every life is a possession of faith and exercises an inevitable and silent propaganda.

~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Soon after a hard decision something inevitably occurs to cast doubt. Holding steady against that doubt usually proves the decision.

~ R. I. Fitzhenry

I may have faults but being wrong ain't one of them.

~ Jimmy Hoffa

When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must, at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your faith.

~ Abraham Kuyper

Along with a sense of humor, my songs have to be sincere, and they have to be sung from a position of inner conviction.

~ Arlo Guthrie

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

~ Albert Einstein

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

~ Victor Hugo

The knowledge and spiritual conviction we receive from the Holy Ghost are the result of revelation.

~ David A. Bednar

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

~ Flannery O'connor