Quotes About Certainty

Hopkirk, like many physicians of his day, also prescribed quinine to treat the flu. "In quinine," he wrote with great certainty, "we have a drug that not only controls fever-producing processes allied to fermentations, but also exerts a definite anti-toxic action on the specific virus of influenza itself.

There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.

We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.

The sun will rise tomorrow morning; I know that perfectly well. But figuring out how I could know it is, as Hume pointed out, a bit of a puzzle.

If there is a single event in all of the universe that can occur outside of God's sovereign control, then we cannot trust Him.

Confidence in the sovereignty of God in all that affects us is crucial to our trusting Him. if there is a single event in all of the universe that can occur outside of God's sovereign control, then we cannot trust Him.

That act of the will, though, must be based on belief, and belief must be based on truth.

You and I may never have the privilege in this life of seeing an obvious outcome of God's plan for us, as Joseph did. But God's plan for us is no less firm and its outcome is no less certain than was God's plan for Joseph.

We are to look beyond our adversity to what God is doing in our lives and rejoice in the certainty that He is at work in us to cause us to grow.

I am right. I`m always right. One time I thought I was wrong, I found out I was right.

Today he would believe. Tomorrow would answer for itself.

Metric fixation, which aspires to imitate science, too often resembles faith.

I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.

That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!

Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?

Few things in life are certain, and one of them is that you can turn on the television at three in the morning and someone will be singing and dancing on the Indian channel. Proof of Nietzsche's theory of eternal recurrence.

This is not what death should be. Death, the reason for religion, the subject of great literature, the certainty we spend our lives warding off, the giant mystery that looms over everything we do, death should be spectacular, not pity-inducing, a bang and not a whimper. A huge ball of fire, a shower of sparks, a final charge into the ranks of your enemies, a terrific explosion, a backward dive into the fiery pit. Not. . .this.

Sólo existe certeza con respecto al pasado, y con respecto al futuro, la certeza de la muerte.

Faith, in the having mode, is a crutch for those who want to be certain, those who want an answer to life without daring to search for it themselves. Faith, in the being mode, is not, in the first place, a belief in certain ideas, but an inner orientation; an attitude.

Ä°nanç, kesin olmay???n kesinliÄŸidir. Ä°nsan?n kendi görüÅŸ ve kavray???n?n doÄŸru ve kesin olduÄŸuna inanmakt?r; gerçekliÄŸin ortaya koyaca?? nihai sonuca inanmak deÄŸildir.

life is never certain, never predictable, never controllable; in order to make life controllable it must be transformed into death; death, indeed, is the only certainty in life.

No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect.

A man has to have something he can put faith in.