Convince Quotes

One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.

We just have to convince other people that they have power. This is what they can do by participating to make change, not only in their community, but many times changing in their own lives. Once they participate, they get their sense of power.

I am convinced that the best learning takes place when the learner takes charge.

When somebody has convinced you that you're not worth anything to anybody anymore, and they spend a lot of time doing it, you start believing it yourself.

There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.

Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason.

The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.

preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching.

Lately I’ve been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.

Believe in yourself. And stop trying to convince others

The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver. It is truly one of the things that make life worth living and it does so, if anything, more effectively if it convinces us that the time we have for living is quite finite.

My resolution, standing with the vast majority of Americans who know we can and must be safer, is to cede no ground to those who would convince us the path is too steep, or we too weak.

I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun.

It can be very expensive to try to convince the markets you are right.

Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.

As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.

To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time.

What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.

My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth

I am convinced, the longer I live, that life & its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed, are [as] when we are suffering greatly, we are inclined to suppose.

You have only one way to convince others, listen to them.

To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.

If a writer is convinced that he is honest, then it is very difficult for him to be a bad writer.

When you try to convince yourself that something doesn't bother you, it usually bothers you more.

Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of the seats of diseases, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. How often are we disappointed in our expectation from the most certain and powerful of our remedies, by the negligence or obstinacy of our patients! What mischief have we done under the belief of false facts and false theories! We have assisted in multiplying diseases. We have done more — we have increased their mortality.