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“Truth is not a matter of argumentation and conviction; it is not the outcome of opinion.”

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Book:Commentaries on Living

Source: Commentaries on Living

“I have always tried to be obedient regarding important matters like not being scalded to death by burning oil, but when public opinion takes a route far from one's inner conviction, one cannot value disobedience too highly.”

Important Matter Values Opinion Conviction Oil Burning Routes Public Opinion Disobedience Obedient

Author:Barbara Dana

“Wherever we turn we find that the real obstacles to peace are human will and feeling, human convictions, prejudices, opinions. If we want to get rid of war we must get rid first of all of its psychological causes. Only when this has been done will the rulers of the nations even desire to get rid of the economic and political causes.”

Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideals

“The First Amendment isn't about free thought and free opinion and free belief. The First Amendment is about free exercise: the carrying into practice of religious principles and beliefs and convictions.”

Firsts Belief Religious Opinion Principles Practice Exercise Conviction Amendments First Amendment Free Thought Free Opinion

Author:Alan Keyes

“Whenever there is an organized movement to persuade people to believe or do something, whenever an effort is made to "propagate" a creed or set of opinions or convictions or to make people act as we want them to act, the means employed are called propaganda.”

People Want Believe Mean Made Effort Opinion Atheism Movement Conviction Positive Atheism Propaganda Organized Creeds Employed

Author:Edwin Way Teale

“It gave me no pleasure to see people drink in my opinions if they seemed ignorant of Jesus Christ and the value of being saved by Him. Sound conviction for sin, especially the sin of unbelief, and a heart set on fire to be saved by Christ, with a strong yearning for a truly sanctified soul-this was what delighted me; those were the souls I considered blessed.”

People Ifs Heart Soul Values Jesus Strong Sound Christ Sin Pleasure Opinion Fire Drink Jesus Christ Blessed Conviction Saved Ignorant Yearning Delighted Unbelief

Author:John Bunyan

“Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.”

Should Sound Opinion Influence Conviction Public Opinion

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance.”

Book War Ends Opinion Shots Destruction Finals Conviction Instance Logical Creeds Best Shot

Author:T. E. Lawrence

“No two people see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will often apply the same principle, recognized by both, differently. Even one and the same person won't always maintain the same views and judgments: earlier convictions must give way to later ones.”

People World Way Giving Persons Two Different Views Opinion Principles Judgment Conviction Outlook Temperament

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.”

Passion Grows Opinion Intellectual Conviction Laziness Intellectual Laziness

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Most advice on child-rearing is sought in the hope that it will confirm our prior convictions. If the parent had wished to proceedin a certain way but was made insecure by opposing opinions of neighbors, friends, or relatives, then it gives him great comfort to find his ideas seconded by an expert.”

Ifs Way Giving Children Made Ideas Certain Parent Opinion Advice Comfort Conviction Neighbor Experts Insecure Opposing Child Rearing Neighbors Friends

Author:Bruno Bettelheim

“The arbitrary division between church and state... is used, as an easily identifiable rallying point, to subdue the opinions of that vast body of citizens who represent those with religious convictions.”

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Author:Francis Schaeffer

“We live in an age of prejudice, dissimulation and paradox, wherein, like dry leaves caught in a whirlpool, some of us are tossed helpless . . . ever struggling between our honest convictions and fear of that cruelest of tyrants -- PUBLIC OPINION.”

Age Opinion Struggle Honest Prejudice Caught Conviction Dry Paradox Tyrants Helpless Public Opinion Whirlpools Dry Leaves

Author:H. P. Blavatsky

“My opinion - nay more, my conviction - is that, in the present state of science, as you rightly say, spontaneous generation is a chimera; and it would be impossible for you to contradict me, for my experiments all stand forth to prove that spontaneous generation is a chimera.”

States Would Be Opinion Impossible Generations Prove Conviction Experiments Spontaneous Chimera

Author:Louis Pasteur

“[We are] no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.”

Source: The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People

“In a world where the threat is asymmetrical, where the weak defy the strong, the power of conviction, the capacity to convince, the ability to sway opinion count as much as the number of military divisions.”

World Strong Ability Numbers Opinion Military Capacity Weak Threat Conviction Convince Division

Author:Dominique de Villepin