#conviction

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice! ↗

— Mother Jones

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

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

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We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind. ↗

— Juan Antonio Samaranch

#benefit #bringing #convictions #ideal #irrespective

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

— Gertrude Stein

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It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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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

#certainty #claims #convictions #doubt #fears

A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth. ↗

— Max Frisch

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Knowledge & understanding mixed with ones convictions of 'experience' is hardly impositional". ~R. Alan Woods [2012] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#experience-inspiration #knowledge #knowledge-teaching #knowledge-wisdom #r-alan-woods