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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	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human arrogance off one pedestal after another of our previous conviction about our own self-importance. – Stephen Jay Gould	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Seven things characterise the wise man, and seven the blockhead. The wise man speaks not before those who are his superiors, either in age or wisdom. He interrupts not others in the midst of their discourse. He replies not hastily. His questions are relevant to the subject, his answers, to the purpose. In delivering his sentiments he taketh the first in order first, the last, last. What he understands not he says, ?I understand not.? He acknowledges his error, and is open to conviction. The reverse of all this characterises the blockhead. – The Talmud	added by anonymous 12 years ago
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 13 years ago
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. – Samuel Johnson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Nothing is more depressing than the conviction that one is not a hero. – George Moore	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. – Vaclev Havel	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without. – Eric Hoffer	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. – Victor Hugo	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. – Victor Hugo	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. – Václav Havel, Disturbing the Peace, ch. 5 (1986; tr. 1990).	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself. – Jean Francois Revel	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. – Victor Hugo	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Faith is not the knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us. – Rabbi David Wolpe	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on. – Walter J. Lippmann	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction. – Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1945	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. – Victor Hugo	added by anonymous 13 years ago
He that is not open to conviction, is not qualified for discussion. – Richard Whately	added by anonymous 13 years ago
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction. – Julian Weber Gordon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people-nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations-have the will to meet the trials that these times impose. – Lyndon B. Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved. – Victor Hugo	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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