Quotes About Conviction

La moral no es más que ese famoso círculo de tiza alrededor de la gallina: sólo encierra a los que creen en ella

He's the kind of liar who totally forgets what he told you the last time, but he believes every single lie with such conviction that sometimes he can convince you of it.

Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying

There's a tipping point with lies, a point where you've said something so many times that it feels truer than the truth.

We show her that I am no feckless High King." "And how do we do that?" I ask. "With great difficulty," he says. "Since I fear she is right.

We show her that I am no feckless High king.' 'And how do we do that?' I ask. 'With great difficulty,' he says. 'Since I fear she is right.

The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.

A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places - a voice that tells us to stand, to have courage, to do what is right.

I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill.

A companion's words of persuasion are effective.

I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn't a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me -- I actually took my teachers seriously!

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sounded so sure of herself, as if she knew Lars

She was all-powerful when she knew without doubt that she was in the right. But how often did you know for sure that you were right? Hardly ever.

It is in most cases more difficult to make intelligent people believe that you are what you are not, than really to become what you would appear to be.

Look to the end; and resolve to make the service of Christ the first object in what remains of life, without indifference to the opinion of your fellow men, but also without fear of it.

No Legislature can really destroy a religious conviction, except by exterminating its holders. It is historically too late to do that, and we shall live to see the drowned Egyptians on the seashore even yet.

Studies show that when we vocalize an opinion, whether or not we believe it to be true, in time we usually come to support it.

And you know, I believed him. What girl wouldn't?

To believe in something to yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives it is the only way we can leave the future open.

Love of one's fellowmen should not be a doctrine, an article of faith, a matter of intellectual conviction, or a thesis supported by arguments. The love of mankind which requires reasons is no true love. This love should be perfectly natural, as natural for man as for the birds to flap their wings. It should be a direct feeling, springing naturally from a healthy soul, living in touch with Nature.

The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me.

If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and reassert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.

Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we may succeed. But if, after all, we shall fail, be it so: we still shall have the proud consolation of saying to our consciences, and to the departed shade of our country's freedom, that the cause approved of our judgment and adored of our hearts, in disaster, in chains, in torture, in death, we never faltered in defending.