Apt quotations carry conviction. [ William Ewart Gladstone ]

Conviction is the conscience of the mind. [ Chamfort ]

Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction. [ R. G. Ingersoll ]

Conviction is oftener the child of Temperament than of Reason. [ Mme. de Lambert ]

A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule. [ J. Stuart Mill ]

He who is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion. [ Richard Whately ]

Oh, how sweet it is to hear our own conviction from another's lips! [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

I will listen to any one's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself. [ Goethe ]

No historic event is so important as the advent of a conviction of a now truth. [ James Freeman Clarke ]

Not he who has many ideas, but he who has one conviction may become a great man. [ Cötvös ]

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. [ Dr. Johnson ]

At the center of this movement is a crucial conviction, that a nation exists to serve its citizens. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]

Happiness is matter of opinion, of fancy, in fact, but it must amount to conviction, else it is nothing. [ Chamfort ]

Jess would have been an omnivorous reader of books had it not been her conviction that reading was idling. [ George Eliot ]

My opinion, my conviction, gains infinitely in strength and sureness the moment a second mind has adopted it. [ Novalis ]

Man's conviction should be strong, and so well timed that worldly advantages may seem to have no share in it. [ Addison ]

No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites. [ Fenelon ]

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of conviction. The leaden bullet is more fatal than when multiplied into shot. [ Hosea Ballou ]

Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust. [ George Washington ]

What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions. [ William Penn ]

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction, and set with the sharp mordant of experience. [ Lowell ]

There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole catalogue of human suffering, as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tenderly love is estranged from us. [ Bulwer ]

A true friend will appear such in leaving us to act according to our intimate conviction, will cherish this nobleness of sentiment, will never wish to substitute his power for our own. [ William Ellery Channing ]

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which, one would think, might dispose us to modesty, for the more a man knows, the more he discovers his ignorance. [ Frances Kemble ]

My own firm conviction is that no education can make a writer. The heart must be hot behind the pen. Out of the abundance of life and its manifold experiences comes the power to touch life. [ Amelia E. Barr, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation. [ Lowell ]

Dreams ought to produce no conviction whatever on philosophical minds. If we consider how many dreams are dreamt every night, and how many events occur every day, we shall no longer wonder at those accidental coincidences which ignorance mistakes for verifications. [ Colton ]

Poetry interprets in two ways: it interprets by expressing, with magical felicity, the physiognomy and movements of the outward world; and it interprets by expressing, with inspired conviction, the ideas and laws of the inward world of man's moral and spiritual nature. In other words, poetry is interpretative both by having natural magic in it, and by having moral profundity. [ Matthew Arnold ]