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Laurens Van der Post
: Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
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They say somebody has invented you but to me this does not sound convincing for humans invented themselves as well.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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Edgar Allan Poe :
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
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If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
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Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.
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If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
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There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.
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Blaise Pascal :
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People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found out by others.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe :
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Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced; the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.
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I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and I have such strong feelings about what must be done.
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Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
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Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.
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The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.
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There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living... a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.
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