Quotes About Conviction

A successful lie is not fueled by the liar; it is fueled by the willingness of the listener to believe. You can't expose a lie without first shattering the will to believe it. That is why leading people to truth is so much more effective than merely telling them.

At that moment he could have said the earth was made of chocolate pudding and I would have believed it.

truth and conviction are not comfortable bedfellows, and what one believes will often cast out that which is true.

The good Lord wouldn't have put it in your heart if it wasn't right.

A successful lie is not fueled by the liar; it is fueled by the willingness of the listener to believe. You can't expose a lie without first shattering the will to believe it. That is why leading people to truth is so much more effective than merely telling them.

We can lie to ourselves, saying we believe one thing, and sometimes we convince others it's true, with the hope that by convincing others, we can convince ourselves. Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.

A successful lie is not fueled by the liar; it is fueled by the willingness of the listener to believe.

For if my study of human nature has taught me anything, it is that truth and conviction are not comfortable bedfellows, and what one believes will often cast out that which is true.

I know the thing the Tonists believe are ridiculous, Citra said, but I suppose to some people, there's something compelling about them. That's what turkeys think about the rain, Marie pointed out. They raise their eyes heavenward, open up their beaks, and drown.

I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, crazy. But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.

Those who preach god, need god Those who preach peace do not have peace Those who preach love do not have love

I had also read somewhere that if a man didn't truly believe or understand what he was espousing, somehow he could do a more convincing job

I drank in my words like a thirsty man. I even began to believe them.

she likes that and I like it too because to/make a thing true all you've/got to do is believe

I had also read somewhere that if a man didn't truly believe or understand what he was espousing, somehow he could do a more convincing job, which gave me a considerable advantage over the teachers.

if a man didn't truly believe or understand what he was espousing, somehow he could do a more convincing job

I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, crazy. But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.

Historians provide many reasons for this extraordinary transition, high among them the fierce opposition of slaves themselves. But another important cause is that abolitionists convinced people around the world that slavery was a moral disaster. An institution fundamental to human society for millennia was made over by ideas and a call to action, loudly repeated.

When you speak what you believe, you believe what you speak. The more you believe it, the more you say it. The more you say it, the more you believe it. That image is perfected in you. The more it comes and goes through that cycle, the stronger it becomes in you.

Natural selection rendered evolution scientifically intelligible: it was this more than anything else which convinced professional biologists like Sir Joseph Hooker, T. H. Huxley and Ernst Haeckel.

Whoever is led to believe that species are mutable will do good service by conscientiously expressing his conviction; for only thus can the load of prejudice by which this subject is overwhelmed be removed.

I had always believed prayer ought to be conducted on our feet rather than on our knees, since God seems in all other departments of life to require us to stand upright and account for ourselves.

Cuanto más vivo, y cuanto más cerca de Cristo camino, mayor es mi convicción de que él no se toma el tiempo de explicar el por qué. De modo que confiamos en él a lo largo de la vida sin la expectativa de que sea respondido el «por qué».

Un espíritu humilde, nacido de una profunda convicción de que no somos nada, es una gracia que adorna.