Quotes About Conviction

Faith itself, you see, is the key-the magic wand that they wave over the bubbling brew they have concocted to render it 'self-evident'.

As with all truth, there would be those who refused to believe it and would not even look at the proof.

and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.

I tell you, commander, it's true that some of the most terrible things in the world are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they're doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved.

Belief, he says. Belief shifts. People start out believing in the god and end up believing in the structure.

It's hard to explain, said Brutha. But I think it's got something to do with how people should behave... you should do things because they're right. Not because gods say so. They might say something different another time.

People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.

When people say clearly something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.

it's true that some if the most terrible things in the works are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they're doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved.

I have woken up and I am real. I know where I come from and I know where I'm going. You cannot fool me any more.

The important thing about being a leader is not being right or wrong but being certain. Of course it helps to be right as well, the Abbot conceeded.

They weren't looking at him as if he was their only hope. They were looking at him as if he was their Certainty.

Offer people a new creed with a costume and their hearts and minds will follow.

He had died for his beliefs; chief among them was the very Hugglestonian one that bravery could replace armour, and that Klatchians would turn and run if you shouted loud enough.

To tell you the truth, I'm something of an atheist.

You want a special truth. *You* want the truth to be a truth that *you* like. You want it to be a pretty little truth that fits what you already believe!

Something as deeply personal as faith should not be subjected to another person's contempt.

The worth of a cause is not necessarily proportional to the lengths to which people will go to promote it.

Well, here is one who, whatever her defects, probably does what she believes as nearly as possible.

It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.

The truth is the truth, whether or not it is accepted by the majority. Therefore, I tell you children, it takes great courage to stand up for and protect what is right.

Jon M. Chu is one of the most creative, convincing humans you'll ever meet.

My own personal conviction is that if I were writing without thinking about how images or how journalism is creating a world for us, I would not be happy about it.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.