#convictions

Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say "No," though all the world say "Yes. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#morality #courage

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

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#abandoning #anyone #convictions #nor #our

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

#after #another #arrogance #centrality #common

Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost. Because it's wrong about half the time. Think about that. ↗

— John Grisham

#almost #because #convictions #country #every

In this kind of situation, we tend to cling to his convictions, we believe that, by magic, we are going to recover. Then we agree to drive less good cars and we are fatally more exposed. It is what finally happened to me with Ensign. ↗

— Jacky Ickx

#believe #cars #cling #convictions #drive

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#courage #death #even #men #moral

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#blessed #convictions #courage #enough #every

When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#convictions #firm #give #hold #preferences

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. ↗