Famous quotes containing the word convinced:
“If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don’t deserve to succeed.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“Although the most incisive judges of the witches and even the witches themselves were convinced of the guilt of witchcraft, this guilt nevertheless did not exist. Thus it is with all guilt.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Life direct...is what Flaubert and Joyce have convinced themselves the man may never get quite clear of but the artist has nothing to do with. What they can’t admit is that t is overrated: which artists, faking and fumbling it together out of spit and toothpicks, should know best of all.”
—Marvin Mudrick (1921–1986)