#conviction

My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must. ↗

— Jim Cramer

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The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable. ↗

— Charles Trevelyan

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You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions. ↗

— Denis Waitley

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The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

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The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

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Conviction without experience makes for harshness. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

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Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account. ↗

— Dave Obey

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