Be true to your own highest convictions. [ William Ellery Channing ]

Follow your honest convictions, and be strong. [ William M. Thackeray ]

Convictions that remain silent are neither sincere nor profound.

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

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition. [ Dr. Johnson ]

The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed. [ Emerson ]

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

Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable. [ Epictetus ]

The more readily we admit the possibility of our own cherished convictions being mixed with error, the more vital and helpful whatever is right in them will become; and no error is so conclusively fatal as the idea that God will not allow us to err, though He has allowed all other men to do so. [ Ruskin ]