The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.
The peace of mind, is very essential for our health. So in that level, I think scientific finding, immense benefit to get our wellness and eventually conviction, peace of mind is not just a luxurious item, but peace of mind is actually very important for our survival, for our healthy survival.
I'm convinced that the most important division in human affairs is probably not the one between left and right, liberal and conservative. It's the one between zealotry and understanding, between absolute conviction and compromise, between preachers and politicians.
When a denomination begins to consider doctrine divisive, theology troublesome, and convictions inconvenient, consider that denomination on its way to a well-deserved death.
It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.
One difference between a conviction and a prejudice is that a conviction can be explained without getting angry.
Our greatest challenge today is to couple conviction with doubt. By conviction, I mean some pragmatically developed faith, trust, or centeredness; and by doubt I mean openness to the ongoing changeability, mystery, and fallibility of the conviction.
People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.
Co-opted convictions will always betray you.
The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?
Critics should stick to their convictions.
To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.
The secret of success is conviction and persistence.
Let us. . . quietly accept our times, with the firm conviction that just as much good can be done today as at any time in the past, provided only that we have the will and the way to do it.
What convinces is conviction.
It is my conviction that movie stars are not entitled to any rights of privacy.
If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.
Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers.
My political views have definitely changed over the years. Maybe a better way of saying it is that I have grown into my convictions; the values and ideas of radical feminism that I started to articulate in my late teens feel more internalized or "second nature. "