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Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Convictions are prisons. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Convictions do not imply reasons. -- Margaret Deland
Convictions are a matter of choice, not force. -- Charles R. Swindoll
Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking. -- Albert Einstein
Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest. -- Ambrose Bierce
Convictions are not merely beliefs we hold; they are those beliefs that hold us in their grip. -- Albert Mohler
The Day We Let Our Convictions Define Our Life Rather Than Our Insecurities, Our True Journey Begins. -- Shahid Kapoor
Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions. -- Francis Kelley
A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth. -- Max Frisch
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
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Convictions no doubt have to be modified or expanded to meet changing conditions but ... to be a reliable political leader sooner or later your anchors must hold fast where other men's drag. -- Margot Asquith
Many causes produce war. There are ancient hatreds, turbulent frontiers, the "legacy of old forgotten, far-off things, and battles long ago." There are new-born fanaticisms. Convictions on the part of certain peoples that they have become the unique depositories of ultimate truth and right. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the spirit, proves itself by skepticism. Men of conviction are not worthy of the least consideration in fundamental questions of value and disvalue. Convictions are prisons. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Convictions that outcomes are determined by one's own actions can be either demoralizing or heartening, depending on the level of self-judged efficacy. People who regard outcomes as personally determined, but who lack the requisite skills, would experience low self-efficacy and view the activities with a sense of futility -- Albert Bandura
I have the courage of my convictions. -- Brigitte Bardot
Follow your honest convictions and be strong. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions. -- Dag Hammarskjold
Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church? -- John Calvin
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. -- Louisa May Alcott
Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions. -- Ian Smith
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 McGill
A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy. -- Charles Spurgeon
Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. -- Winston Churchill
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
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in. -- Origen
The word 'tolerance' once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest convictions in the public arena. Now it means those convictions are not even subject to rational debate. -- Nancy Pearcey
Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things - of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires. -- Sheri L. Dew
The records are black boxes for me. Like, if you want to know who I am, my views, my perspective, things I love, things I hate, my convictions, my anthems. I've never let people's opinions affect the way I write. -- Katy Perry
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
My mother always taught us that if people don't agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you've listened to them carefully and you still think that you're right, then you must have the courage of your convictions. -- Jane Goodall
Be strong and follow your own convictions. You can't assume there is a lot of time to do what you like. This is what David Bowie is afraid of: that he will die before he gets a chance to make a real strong contribution. -- Marc Bolan
People of different faiths, like yours and mine, sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose, when there are so many differences in creed and theology. Surely the answer is that we can meet in service, in shared moral convictions about our nation stemming from a common worldview. -- Mitt Romney
A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice. -- Tabatha Coffey
Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth. -- Malcolm X
Strong convictions precede great actions. -- James Freeman Clarke
What matters is your convictions. -- Aniekee Tochukwu
Critics should stick to their convictions. -- Chuck Eddy
Co-opted convictions will always betray you. -- Charles M. Blow
I love opposition that has convictions. -- Frederick the Great
Be true to your own highest convictions. -- William Ellery Channing
Too few have the courage of my convictions. -- Robert M. Hutchins
Courageous convictions will drag the dream into existence. -- Neil Peart
If you have political convictions... keep 'em to yourself -- Johnny Cash
Challenge authority; the authority of your own rational convictions. -- Bryant McGill
You don't have to compromise convictions to be compassionate. -- Rick Warren
Beware lest we mistake our prejudices for our convictions. -- Henry Allen Ironside
convictions ... are always getting in the way of opportunities. -- Ellen Glasgow
People will judge you according to your own convictions. -- Dexter Scott King
N'a de convictions que celui qui n'a rien approfondi -- Emil Cioran
Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering? -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Having Christian convictions can't ever negate having Christ's compassion." -- Ann Voskamp
Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
N'a de convictions que celui qui n'a rien approfondi. -- Emil Cioran
Leadership implies movement toward something and convictions provide that direction. -- Don Shula
I should have the courage of my lack of convictions. -- Tom Stoppard
We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly. -- Emile M. Cioran
Courage results when one's convictions are bigger than one's fears. -- Orrin Woodward
a successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions. -- Ellen Glasgow
Nervousness always provokes mistakes, and mistakes lead to easy convictions. -- S.R. Ford
I have no faith at all. I only hold convictions. -- Ayn Rand
He who believes is strong. Strong convictions precede great actions. -- James Freeman Clarke
the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money. -- Lillian Hellman
Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour. -- Edward Kennedy
Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount. -- Wes Moore
Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others. -- Felix Adler
I don't believe you outsource your convictions and principles to people. -- Jeb Bush
Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. -- Winston Churchill
I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been. -- Jose Saramago
When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm. -- Edwin Louis Cole
I don't think my religious convictions should be held against me. -- Tony Abbott
I don't think my religious convictions should be held against me -- Tony Abbott
In the end, leaders are defined by the convictions they hold. -- George W. Bush
From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There's always a backlash when you challenge people's convictions and their heroes. -- Pink
Your fixed convictions concerning the things that really matter mold your destiny. -- Emmet Fox
Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mother of great deeds. -- Swami Vivekananda
The strength of a country is the strength of its religious convictions. -- Calvin Coolidge
May your convictions be deep, your love real, and your desires earnest -- Charles Spurgeon
If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war. -- Leo Tolstoy
Have the courage of your convictions once you have made a decision. -- Walter Schloss
Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I am a fairly go-with-the-flow guy. Don't get me wrong, I have convictions. -- Brad Katsuyama
The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have only opinions. -- Heinrich Heine
It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice. -- Epictetus
I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
... nonbelievers will insist on their convictions regardlesshow many miracles are presented to them -- Caner Taslaman
Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions. -- Maurice Allais
The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy. -- Geraldine Ferraro
Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition. -- Samuel Johnson
My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada. -- Preston Manning
Democracy has no convictions for which people would be willing to stake their lives. -- Ernst Hanfstaengl
Few of us take the pains to study the origin of our cherished convictions. -- James Harvey Robinson
Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion. -- Eric Maisel
Acting on your convictions is the ultimate test of your faith in your convictions. -- Murad S. Shah
[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions. -- Margot Asquith
The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions. -- Jean Rostand
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions. -- Dag Hammarskjold
I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth. -- Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity. -- George Bernard Shaw
No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
I felt strong around and always been around people who have very strong environmental convictions. -- Daryl Hannah
Any positive thinker is compelled to see everything in the light of his own convictions. -- Antoinette Brown Blackwell
If we are really to live at all we must put our convictions into action. -- Margaret Sanger
If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions. -- Julia Child
How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions! -- Logan Pearsall Smith
I don't consider myself a Hollywood liberal, but I have my convictions and my beliefs. -- Matt Dillon
When you are a man of the spirit, your convictions speaks the language of heavens -- Ikechukwu Izuakor
I also hold very strong personal convictions about censorship. I don't believe in forbidden knowledge. -- Andrea Cremer
I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions. -- Orson Welles
The Cat was a creature of absolute convictions, and his faith in his deductions never varied. -- Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
... some kind of clean, pure feeling does live within us, existing apart from all our convictions. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Christianity is not consistency to conscience or to convictions; Christianity is being true to Jesus Christ. -- Oswald Chambers

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