The Best Lack All Conviction Quotes

#1. The would-be maturing believer is not challenged to any adult faith or service to the world, much less mystical union. Everyone ends up in a muddled middle, where "the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity," as William Butler Yeats put it.

Richard Rohr

#2. The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. I

Dan Simmons

#3. Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is lost
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are filled with passionate intensity.

W.B.Yeats

#4. The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

W.B.Yeats

#5. I don't go to the movies much anymore. There's very little that draws me. I watch mostly the older stuff, and I often don't sit through the new films.

William Friedkin

#6. Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.

Jean Francois Revel

#7. The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction.

Fulton J. Sheen

#8. The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.

Bertrand Russell

#9. The Holy Spirit makes us aware of our lack of holiness to stimulate us to deeper yearning and striving for holiness. But Satan will attempt to use the Holy Spirit's work to discourage us.

Jerry Bridges

#10. If you have strongly held opinions, you are opinionated; if you don't, you lack conviction: either way, there is something wrong with you.

Thomas Szasz

#11. Man's pursuit of physical desires and earthly possessions is an indication of his lack of conviction that the purpose of his existence is the attainment of spirituality.

Abraham J. Twerski

#12. I don't care if religious people consider me amoral because I lack their beliefs in God. I do however care deeply about efforts to turn religious beliefs into law and those efforts benefit greatly from the conviction that individually and collectively we cannot be good without God.

Wendy Kaminer

#13. Survival is not possible if the best of us lack all conviction, while the worst of us are full of passionate intensity.

John Silber

#14. A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail ... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.

Charles Horton Cooley

#15. Though argument does not create conviction, the lack of it destroys belief.

Alister E. McGrath

#16. Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.

Joni Mitchell

#17. What motivates me is the conviction that our problems are mainly a consequence of a lack of holistic understanding of the man-made system in which we are entwined.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

#18. There is no world without you in it. Nothing. I'm not talking about despair. I've lost people. This isn't me being a child. There is one universe. Just one. And it's between us. If you destroy that universe, you destroy me. Do you understand what I'm saying?

C.D. Reiss

#19. Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife.

Pope Leo I

#20. (Off topic, but: What a slut time is. She screws everybody.)

John Green

#21. Stands must be taken. If I am to respect myself I have to search myself for what I believe is right and take a stand on what I find. Otherwise, I have not gathered together what I have been given; I have not embraced what I have learned; I lack my own conviction.

Hugh Prather

#22. Remember, we know where you sleep, Jon said softly.

George R R Martin

#23. Self-esteem is an essential psychological need - no one can live with the conviction that they are fundamentally no good, so people who lack the real thing attempt to fake it.

Edwin A. Locke

#24. He'd once had a religious conviction, but had been acquitted through lack of evidence.

Nigel Cole