Quotes About Conviction

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is ironical and entertaining to consider that at least once in the world's history those words might have been said with complete conviction, and that was on the eve of the Resurrection.

A person who can believe all the articles of the Christian faith is not going to boggle over a trifle of adverse evidence.

Any fool can tell a lie, and any fool can believe it; but the right method is to tell the truth in such a way that the intelligent reader is seduced into telling the lie for himself.

When I was young and bold and strong, Oh, right was right, and wrong was wrong!

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

She worked out once and for all where the Land Rover had to be, and worked it out with such ruthless determination that the Land Rover would hardly dare not to be there

He would continue to believe in it whatever the facts turned out to be, what else was the meaning of Belief?

to authorize that personally.

The most dangerous people were those who knew they were always right.

It is easier to commit murder than to justify it.

No argument will give courage to the coward.

If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.

She looked at them with shining eyes. Her chin went up. She said: "You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!" The judge stroked his chin. He murmured in a slightly ironic voice: "My dear lady, in my experience of ill-doing, Providence leaves the work of conviction and chastisement to us mortals-and the process is often fraught with difficulties. There are no short cuts.

I had the firm conviction that, if I went about looking for adventure, adventure would meet me halfway. It is a theory of mine that one always gets what one wants.

Of course, if you've made up your mind about it, you'll find an answer to everything.

Oh, my friend, have I not said to you all along that I have no proofs. It is one thing to know that a man is guilty, it is quite another matter to prove him so. And, in this case, there is terribly little evidence. That is the whole trouble.

It is one thing to know that a man is guilty, it is quite another matter to prove him so.

I mean that if you are not absolutely sure of a thing, it is so difficult to commit yourself to a definite course of action.

Proof must be solid break walls of facts.

I've become a killer of the Lord. It's the Lord's will that I should kill you. So that makes it all right. You do see that, don't you? You see, it makes it all right.

But if I am right," thought Poirot, "and after all, it is natural to me to be right

My dear lady, in my experience of ill-doing, Providence leaves the work of conviction and chastisement to us mortals—and the process is often fraught with difficulties. There are no short cuts.