352 Quotes About Conviction

If you truly have faith in your convictions, then your convictions should be able to stand criticism and testing.

If you stay true to your principles, you have confidence, conviction, purpose, values - in other words, you have a future.

We need to assess the risk not just to assess the risk, but to determine if there is any risk at all. For if there is none, we might have an idea but we don’t have a dream.

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of the conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or not.

Who you are in public is a test of your conviction; who you are in private, integrity.

Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over the external sanctions because he has no fundamental assurance that his own choices have any sanction of their own

Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.

Could it be that questioning the existence of our purpose is in fact part of the process within which we become convinced that we have one?

The Temper SonnetWhere you need to be calm,You burst out in rage.Where you need to be on fire,You walk in silence and not engage.Where you need to listen,You scream like a loudspeaker.Where you need to speak out,Somehow your words disappear.Where it requires to be humble,Pride takes over your humility.Where your blood needs to boil,Your veins seem to run empty.The right use of temper is an act of revolution.Put it to good use and you'll nourish civilization.