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Conviction and Belief

Quotations from the Wayside

The seat of ethics is in our hearts, not in our minds.
VANNEVAR BUSH

There is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
SAMUEL BUTLER

We must train not only the head, but the heart and the hand.
MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK

Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Some things have to be believed to be seen.
RALPH HODGSON

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

Make your word more reliable than the oaths of others.
ISOCRATES

The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony.
BEATRICE LILLIE

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
THOMAS PAINE

Beliefs are really rules for action.
CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE

Keep thy heart with diligence; from it come the issues of life.
PROVERBS 4:23

God is dead unless his people speak.
ROBERT REED

What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

We believe without belief, beyond belief.
WALLACE STEVENS

Who leads us is less important than what leads us.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Doubts are the things that unite mankind; convictions separate them.
PETER USTINOV

It is not facts but our beliefs about facts which control our actions.
JOHN F. WHARTON

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