~ Conviction and Belief Quotes ~

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[highlight-text]Convictions are the mainsprings of action the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.

Bishop Francis Kelly

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[highlight-text]We each need to let our intuition guide us and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.

Shakti Gawain

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[highlight-text]A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

Norman Douglas

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[highlight-text]Belief is better than anything else and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.

Robert Frost

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[highlight-text]Penetrating so many secrets we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless calmly licking its chops.

Henry Mencken

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[highlight-text]Every man wherever he goes is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions which move with him like flies on a summer day.

Bertrand Russell

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[highlight-text]It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have 'something worth fighting for' they do not feel like fighting.

Eric Hoffer

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[highlight-text]Soon after a hard decision something inevitably occurs to cast doubt. Holding steady against that doubt usually proves the decision.

R. I. Fitzhenry

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[highlight-text]Every man who attacks my belief diminishes in some degree my confidence in it and therefore makes me uneasy and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

Samuel Johnson

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[highlight-text]I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protected from criticism and analysis because they are irrational.

Claude Levi-Strauss

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[highlight-text]Genuine blasphemy genuine in spirit and not purely verbal is the product of partial belief and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.

T. S. Eliot

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[highlight-text]What is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause but what they say about their opponents.

Robert F. Kennedy

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[highlight-text]Those who serve a cause are not those who love that cause. They are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it - except in the case of the very purest and they are rare.

Simone Weil

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[highlight-text]I believe in the gods. Or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent-minded.

Jean Giraudoux

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[highlight-text](Conviction) is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment or by hating them as convinced men have hated say Darwin and Freud as agents of some devil.

John Ciardi