Secret Conviction Quotes

#1. I'd begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that life as we know it is an imperfect vision of reality, and that only art, like a pair of reading glasses can correct it.

Ian Caldwell

#2. Here you come upon the important fact that every revolutionary opinion draws part of its strength from a secret conviction that nothing can be changed.

George Orwell

#3. ... those were the subjects that Barber dealt with as a historian, and no matter how scrupulous and profession he was in treating them, there was always a personal motive behind his work, a secret conviction that he was somehow digging into the mysteries of his own life.

Paul Auster

#4. The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. The purpose of the voice of condemnation is to push you away from His presence -- that which is the very source of your victory. The purpose of the voice of conviction is to press you into the face of Christ." ~Bob Sorge, Secrets of the Secret Place.

Lori Hatcher

#6. I suppose the mothers of most twelve-year-old boys live with the uneasy conviction that their sons are embarked upon a secret life of crime.

Shirley Jackson

#7. I don't think men like a bad girl. Well, I haven't had a date in a year so I'm obviously doing something wrong. It's not that my standards are too high, I haven't even been asked out in a year. I have no standards, anyone, please!

Yasmine Bleeth

#8. The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.

Edward Bellamy

#9. Emerson argued that "the whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible, and they are. They want awakening, [and for that purpose they need teachers] to get the soul out of bed, out of her deep habitual sleep." That

Huston Smith

#10. The secret of success is conviction and persistence.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#11. My dramas mostly involved whats-as in, What on earth is that horrible creature about to rip out my throat?

Kiersten White

#12. Music can give you your dreams. It will teach you hard work, it will break your heart and make you so happy, you can't stand it ... I don't think I'd have been president if it hadn't been for music.

William J. Clinton

#13. Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.

Agnes Martin

#14. I don't know why people are so afraid of dying. It only takes a moment.

Nikolai Grozni

#15. Your brain gets too comfortable in your everyday surroundings. You need to make it uncomfortable. You need to spend some time in another land, among people that do things differently than you. Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.

Austin Kleon

#16. I cannot say that our country could have no secret police without becoming totalitarian, but I can say with great conviction that it cannot become totalitarian without a centralized national police.

Robert H. Jackson

#17. Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.

Horace Mann

#18. The Metaphoton is a web of energy fields or complexes - having three hierarchical complexes called the light complex, mind complex and spirit complex.

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

#19. Only God writes great non-fiction.

E.C. Lartigue

#20. The modern world detests authority but worships relevance. Our Christian conviction is that the Bible has both authority and relevance, and that the secret of both is Jesus Christ

John Stott

#21. People on the pathway to enlightenment become very successful in whatever they approach, because they have learned to discipline the mind.

Frederick Lenz

#22. We want to be on the winning team, but at the risk of turning our backs on the losers, no, it is not worth it. So we fight the long defeat.

Paul Farmer

#23. No matter how rich, powerful or handsome he is, he is still just a man.

Rebecca Warner

#24. There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.

Agnes Repplier