Quotes About Conviction

I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'

It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up.

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.

I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.

A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.

It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it.

More than life, I value vindication. When you are at peace with the truth and you know that you are on the side of the right and God is on your side, you are not afraid of anything, including jail.

Evangelizing includes the endeavor to elicit a response to the truth taught.

So long as you believe in some truth you do not believe in yourself. You are a servant. A man of faith.

Those who differ most from the opinions of their fellow men are the most confident of the truth of their own.

To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.

Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.

All I have is an opinion - I don't deal in Truth.

I have tried," I said, "but he does not believe me. It is too late for that now" (it is always too late for truth, I thought).

Sacrifice life to truth.

The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth.

Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught when convicted of his error, and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces truth, though with the sacrifice of favourite opinions.

The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side.

I wanted my players to always be searching, especially for truth. I wanted them to know what they believed and be able to defend it. Truth will always stand the test of scrutiny.

But I remember being told that the truth does not depend on being believed.

Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?