Quotes About Certainty

He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up.

The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.

I always knew that we were going to be successful and accomplish and succeed at our dreams. There was never a doubt in my mind. When we were recording 'Appetite For Destruction', we all knew.

I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.

It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose.

When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty.

To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

Believing in God was something I took as much for granted as the air I breathed. Religion wasn't something that came out of a box on Sunday.

I knew all the right Bible answers and the Sunday school answers.

I'm not really a gambler, but I'll bet on the Super Bowl or some boxing. Something I feel comfortable with.

it is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it.

My God, I thought with sudden vehemence, so you really are. There are proofs of your existence. I have forgotten them all and never even wanted any, for what a huge obligation would lie in the certainty of you.

Believe me, life is right in all cases.

What shouldn't a person be able to achieve with precisely the kind of force that is needed to dissolve the powerful, tremendous attachments of life! From that moment on I have known with certainty that the worst things, and even despair, are only a kind of abundance and an onslaught of existence that one decision of the heart could turn into its opposiite. Where things become truly difficult and unbearable, we find ourselves in a place already very close to its transformation.

Life is right, in any case.

It was unbelievable, but perhaps only the unbelievable could be believed. Perhaps the truth was always a lie.

It was unbelievable, but perhaps only the unbelievable could be believed. Perhaps the truth was always a lie. Perhaps

they could talk and agree with themselves, the world was nailed down, and they loved it. They received a feeling of security.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

When they are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork, but the solidest thing we know.

We are born believing. A man bears belief, as a tree bears apples.

Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

It makes no difference whether the appeal is to numbers or to one. The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting it to the end, it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe.