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Quotes About Conviction

I was telling the truth. I feel like we got that point across.
~ James L. Barksdale
I deliver my Truth hot and hard.
~ Stephen Colbert
There is faith in every serious doubt, namely, the faith in the truth as such, even if the only truth we can express is our lack of truth.
~ Paul Tillich
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
~ G.K. Chesterton
No one can give you the strength of character necessary... Only you can find that passion within that burns with an integrity that will not settle for anything less than the Truth.
~ Adyashanti
There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve.
~ George MacDonald
Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I lay down the Position, That whatever a Conscience well directed allows us to do for the Advancement of Truth, an erroneous Conscience will warrant for advancing a suppos'd Truth.
~ Pierre Bayle
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
The backbone of the preaching of Christ is a conviction of the truth of Christ.
~ Charles Spurgeon
A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
~ John Dryden
To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.
~ Ralph Venning
You see, I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.
~ Christopher Hampton
My body gets weak without truth.
~ Andrei Platonov
Trust in your truth. It will be the best decision you ever make.
~ Martha Beck
Men to be truly won must be won by truth.
~ Charles Spurgeon
When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.
~ William Shakespeare
Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point MY POINT EXACTLY.
~ Terry Pratchett
Principle is a passion for truth.
~ William Hazlitt
Our thoughts and actions must in no way be determined by the approval or disapproval of our time, but by the binding obligation to a truth which we have recognized.
~ Adolf Hitler
Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
~ Jack Kerouac
Never compromise a principle or relinquish a vital truth.
~ Alfred Armand Montapert