Convince Quotes - Page 2

To become convinced that you can succeed is the first requisite to success.

I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.

It tore us up emotionally hearing someone say to the judge and the cameras that this is a band that creates music that kills young people. We accept that some people don't like heavy metal, but we can't let them convince us that it's negative and destructive. Heavy metal is a friend that gives people great pleasure and enjoyment and helps them through hard times. “Whether there's any 'subliminal effect' from the court, I don't know, but we certainly couldn't let it interfere with our creativity.

I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere.

One of the adversary's sharpest tools is to convince us that we are no longer worthy to pray. No matter who you are or what you may have done, you can always pray.

One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.

I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity.

Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free – if we are. Or because we’ve been educated – if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears, tells us where delights are lurking, convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever, that of the mind, and gives us the assurance – the confidence – to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers.

The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.

Sorcerers are convinced that all of us are a bunch of nincompoops. We can never relinquish our crummy control voluntarily, thus we have to be tricked

There's a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. Knowing about God is all of the stuff we've been told and all of the books we've read and all of our religious experiences and what others have told us and tried to convince us of. But knowing God is when we make conscious contact.

More and more I’ve become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown.

You can't convince anyone of anything. You can only give them the right information, so that they convince themselves.

Our present culture, however, specializes in inflaming endless lust for possessions with advertisements that constantly convince us that we need more (particularly to create the ease we have never found). The marketers don't tell us much about their products, but they spend a great deal of energy (and enormous amounts of money) appealing to our fears and dreams. Thus, the idolatry of possessions plays to the deeper idolatry of our selves-and in an endlessly consuming society, persons are always remaking themselves with new belongings.

I will only accept something as truth if I am actually convinced of it.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

If somebody had told me my method would not work I nevertheless would have tried it out to make sure for myself, for when I am wrong only one thing convinces me of it, and that is, to lose money. And I am only right when I make money. That is speculating.

We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.

We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.

I am deeply convinced that God is present both in the lives of every person and also in the lives of entire nations.

It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good.

Since I am convinced that I wrong no one, I am not likely to wrong myself.

What convinces is conviction.