#convict

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

#argument #believe #brilliant #case #chain

Shortly after the end of last season, I felt that I probably would not return for the 1999-2000 season. I also felt that I should take as much time as possible to sort through my feelings and make sure that my feelings were backed with conviction. ↗

— Barry Sanders

#also #backed #conviction #end #feelings

This idea, as you know, that I have firm convictions that the idea of issues being a big deal where our mutual friend went back and he felt so strongly that the determining factor in electoral success should be a proven character. ↗

— James Stockdale

#being #big #big deal #character #convictions

Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#appear #bad #certainty #conviction #harsh

My suspension was a long-planned move... and was done to protect would-be convicts in Romanian politics. ↗

— Traian Basescu

#done #move #politics #protect #suspension

It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong convictions that they represent. On the contrary, teachings can be either taken or dismissed; whereas voting is the only thing the average person can do to force everyone to live how they would prefer. A simple vote is among the largest yet most acceptable forms of bigotry, and that is because people play the card only when they feel that in doing so it conveniences themselves. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bigotry #convenience #convictions #evangelists #hypocrisy

[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly can attack a great lion and speedily put him to flight. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#beliefs #clichés #convictions #dignity #double-standards

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

Accept and express your underlying certitude, and it shall be worldwide sagacity. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#inspirational #sagacity #wisdom #inspirational

What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#always #convictions #doubt #important #intellect