Quotes About Conviction

Indeed, truth draws strength from itself and not from the number of votes in its favour.

The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying--but of acting against one's conviction.

Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.

The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

There are many degrees of Probable, some nearer Truth than others, in the determining of which lies the chief exercise of our Judgment.

I will only accept something as truth if I am actually convinced of it.

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.

The size of your faith or the degree of your knowledge is not the issue—it is the integrity you demonstrate toward the faith you do have and the truth you already know.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

People may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a holy life.

If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it.

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and makes us incapable of accepting the proofs against it.

To seek truth and to utter what one believes to be true can never be a crime. No one must be forced to accept a conviction. Conviction is free.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Your ability to stand up for your truth is a muscle, and the more you exercise it the stronger it gets.

Faith has need of the whole truth.

One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Preaching is truth set on fire.