Conviction
In law, a conviction is the verdict that results when a court of law finds a defendant guilty of a crime.
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Famous quotes containing the word conviction:
“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)
“The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“There comes a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)