Quotes About Conviction

There are more martyrs to nonsense than truth, truth preferring missionaries.

When you put your hand on the Bible, you are saying something much stronger than just telling your peers that you're going to tell the truth.

If we do not have a deep foundation of faith and a solid testimony of truth, we may have difficulty withstanding the harsh storms and icy winds of adversity which inevitably come to each of us.

The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke.

I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.

I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.

Sometimes people who adamantly assert an opinion or view don't even hold it themselves.

But if it was always a point of speculation, where one person insisted it was a certain way and another denied it, how would anyone ever hold on to the truth?

What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.

Belief made no difference to the truth.

Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.

If you want the truth to prevail, you must cause people to realize the truth. This requires much more skill than is required to simply tell it.

My commitment is to truth not consistency.

Neither when we have chosen our way can we keep company with those who go the other way. There must come with the decision for truth a corresponding protest against error.

I believe what I write to be the truth...every man who is not indifferent to the truth has a weakness for spreading it about.

If one really believes that the metaphysic one adopts has much to commend it, then one should obviously try to persuade others of its truth or acceptability!

The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.

My commitment is not to consistency but to the Truth.

Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.

We have an idea of truth, invincible to all scepticism.

A touch of truth makes a lie worth believing.

I have faith in the Torah. I am not afraid of truth.

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

Truth does not demand belief.