#conviction

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. ↗

— John Updike

#art #change #convictions #customs #facts

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

— Criss Jami

#beliefs #beware #brainwashed #conviction #freedom-of-speech

The great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them. ↗

— George Eliot

#conviction #life

Those mortals who operate in the grey area between conviction and incredulity are in a position to choose most meaningfully, and with most meaningful consequences […] Perhaps only a doubter can appreciate the miracle of life without end. ↗

— Terryl L. Givens

#doubt #grey-areas #seeking #life

Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#feelings #reason #reason

Keep your convictions, exercise what you believe, but always honor the beliefs of others. ↗

— Martin Suarez

#convictions #honor #respect #respect

I have the courage of my convictions. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#courage #i

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#convictions #facts #far #life #more

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#chance #comfortable #conviction #enjoy #game

Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure this hard-won freedom for future generations. ↗

— Guy Verhofstadt

#brothers #conviction #duty #freedom #further