Convinced Quotes

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.

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

I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball.

I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spirited things only when they are not tied in with earning one's livelihood.

When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate.

I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

I am convinced that only when a man is prepared to die is he also prepared to live.

Sometimes miracles happen. We have to be confident. We're convinced we can do something really exceptional.

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization.

People have little idea, by and large, of the investment world. They are convinced they have an advantage.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.

The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for the healthy person all foods should be delicious.

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

Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.

Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And anyone can have them.

It is senseless to argue with someone whose sole purpose in life is to not be convinced of anything.

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

I am convinced that it is of primordial importance to learn more every year than the year before. After all, what is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn.

I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending, that haunts our sleep so much as the fear that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement the firmer their convictions.

I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

People are best convinced by things they themselves discover.

I quickly convinced myself that the true key to material happiness lay in a modest standard of living which could be achieved with little difficulty under almost all economic conditions.

I am firmly convinced that you shouldn't necessarily emphasize hedonism, especially at the beginning of a career, but should instead focus entirely on performance.

While preaching against every kind of government, and demanding complete freedom, we must support all struggles for partial freedom, because we are convinced that one learns through struggle.

I am convinced that we must train not only the head, but the heart and hand as well.

The older I get, the more convinced I am that the space between people who are trying their best to understand each other is hallowed ground.

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

I'm more convinced each day of the complete unreality of the material world and the supreme vitality of the invisible world of spirit.

Having a Christian worldview means being utterly convinced that biblical principles are not only true but also work better in the grit and grime of the real world.

I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.

I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.

I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society.

I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.

I am sure all politicians will be convinced of the merits of this deal.

We are convinced that the Rosary, if devotely used is bound to benefit not only the individual but society at large.

I think I've reached the point that I'm convinced enough of the reality of the ET presence and I'm not going to deny it and shy away from it.... It is time to open this up to the public.

From my studies of old and recent reports, and from direct involvement with several UFO investigations, I have become convinced that there is something real and new behind the UFO phenomenon.

We had been frightened of atomic weapons since 1945. In those days I became convinced - and remain convinced now - that, after Hitler, Truman was the greatest murderer in the world.

You're not asking me to guess the mind of Matrim Cauthon, are you?" Elayne asked. "I'm convinced that Mat only acts simple so that people will let him get away with more.

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.

I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously.

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

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

After a lifetime of swimming upstream, I am convinced that one of the real secrets to Wal-mart's phenomenal success has been that very tendency.