Quotes about Conviction
Whatsoever he said, all men believed him that as he spake, so he thought, and whatsoever he did, that he did it with a good intent.
— Marcus Aurelius
If any man is able to convince me and show me that I do not think or act rightly, I will gladly change; for I seek the truth
— Marcus Aurelius
Don't stray, but do what's right whenever you're moved to act, and stick with what's clear and certain whenever you think.
— Marcus Aurelius
Two kinds of readiness are constantly needed: (i) to do only what the logos of authority and law directs, with the good of human beings in mind; (ii) to reconsider your position, when someone can set you straight or convert you to his. But your conversion should always rest on a conviction that it's right, or benefits others—nothing else. Not because it's more appealing or more popular.
— Marcus Aurelius
Two kinds of readiness are constantly needed: (i) to do only what the logos of authority and law directs, with the good of human beings in mind; (ii) to reconsider your position, when someone can set you straight or convert you to his. But your conversion should always rest on a conviction that it's right, or benefits others—nothing else. Not because it's more appealing or more popular.
— Marcus Aurelius
But your conversion should always rest on a conviction that it's right, or benefits others—nothing else. Not because it's more appealing or more popular.
— Marcus Aurelius
A man of faith is also full of courage
— Cicero
By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.
— Margaret Atwood
you could believe you were living virtuously and also murder people if you were a fanatic.
— Margaret Atwood
It's the unbroken calm, both within and without, that is getting to her. Real events happen to people, she thinks, why not me? And then there's her conviction that they are happening, all around her, but that they're being kept from her.
— Margaret Atwood
A faithless preacher with a good manner and voice will always convert more than a limp-handed long-faced fool, no matter how Godly.
— Margaret Atwood
God isn't what they say," she said. She said you could believe in Gilead or you could believe in God, but not both.
— Margaret Atwood