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"The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle."
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"Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief, it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living."
"I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own."
"I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence."
"The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them. It is so, so cumbersome to believe anything. And it isn't cool."
"The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously."
"We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must."
"I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect."
"When you lack the courage to publicly defend biblical truth, it is a clear testimony that you lack the Holy Spirit. The gift of the Holy Spirit is a gift of no fear."
"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."
"Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct."
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"It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into."
"One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them."
"He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery."
"With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed."
"To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject."
"To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still."
"Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity."
"To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite."
"There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly."
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