Quotes About Conviction

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

You cannot be a man of faith unless you know how to doubt.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

I am a man of principle. I will stick by my principles. I will tell the truth no matter where the chips fall.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience.

The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.

The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

I do not know how to make a man think seriously about sin and judgment, and must look to the work of the Holy Spirit for any hint of such a working.

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

A free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country

The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.

When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.

We will not be caught in no man's land.

All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand it.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance.

So upright Quakers please both man and God.