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The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

James Russell Lowell

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Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

Claude Levi-Strauss

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Poverty

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.

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

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate.

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

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.