Quotes About Certainty

I believe only in the mathematics.

I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.

If something is meant to be, then it will be.

When the time comes to retire, I think I'll know. I really do.

If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.

Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt.

The salvation of the elect was as certain before His advent, though accomplished by it, as afterwards.

Dogmatism makes for scientific anemia.

I never second-guess myself.

A DJ is nice and secure to have where there's a set playlist that you can kind of create yourself and then you know for sure what you're going to get.

When we stop running up huge budget deficits and start acting responsibly in Washington, we will provide small-business owners with the certainty they need to put Americans back to work.

Doubt is important because it suggests progress. Total certainty can mean there's no assessment of things. Doubt, if you don't panic, can allow newness to come in and challenge something that's an established mode.

I act because it's the one time I'm sure of my identity. There's no doubt. It's on paper.

I'm not a guy who wants to skydive and open my parachute at the last minute. I want to open my parachute right away and know what's coming.

You've heard the saying, 'Analysis creates paralysis.' You can't be 100 percent sure of anything.

I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.

All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.

but between reject and not—reject. You can decide that the probability that you are wrong is so small that you should not reject the hypothesis. You can decide that the probability that you are wrong is so large that you should reject the hypothesis. But with any probability short of zero that you are wrong—certainty rather than uncertainty—you cannot accept a hypothesis.

She had traded a dangerous freedom for the surety of slavery. Not

No authority is higher than reality.

Todos mis problemas surgen de creer cosas que sé que no son ciertas.

For in the figure of Christ we are confronted with an atomic event that does not destroy the world, but rather obliterates the way in which we exist within the world. In concrete terms, this means that the darkness and dissatisfaction that make their presence felt in our lives are not finally answered by certainty and satisfaction but are rather stripped of their weight and robbed of their sting.

Christian faith teaches us, if we are sensitive and able to be taught, that the seemingly opposite and opposed realms of radical doubt and absolute certainty are reconciled in a knowing beyond knowledge. There is no doubt for the believer that God dwells with us (as an event), yet there is a deep uncertainty about who, what, or even if God is (as a being).

As we have seen, we ought to affirm our view of God while at the same time realizing that that view is inadequate.