Convictions Quotes

“Convictions are the mainsprings of action the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.”

“I have the courage of my convictions.”

“If you truly have faith in your convictions, then your convictions should be able to stand criticism and testing.”

“Convictions are prisons.”

“If you ask a conservative for a statement of his political convictions, he may well say that he has none, and that the greatest heresy of modernity is precisely to see politics as a matter of convictions as though one could recuperate, at the level of political purpose, the consoling certainty which once was granted by religious faith. In another sense, however, conservatism does rest in a system of belief, and is opposed as much to the theory as to the practice of socialist and liberal politics.”

“I love an opposition that has convictions.”

“But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy. Would any one trust in the convictions of a monkey's mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind?[To William Graham 3 July 1881]”

“We live our thoughts and manifest them in our attitudes toward ourselves and others. We cannot live beyond our thoughts and convictions.”

“The peak of tolerance is most readily achieved by those who are not burdened with convictions.”

“All your convictions come back to mock you when you reach a certain age.”