Quotes About Certainty

Faith is in the eye of the beholder.

Faith never makes a confession.

Faith is what replaces doubt in my dictionary.

The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

I am not as scared about people tearing this one up as I would have been in the past because of the basis in 'knowing' this one has. There are people out there that are hungry for this.

Even as a teenager, I felt that for whatever reason that we were living very close to the end of human history. And now at my age I believe that with almost an increasing certainty.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

It's good to say, 'Look, I can't always be right, but my gut tells me this' - and then you confirm with your gut.

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.

For those who believe in God no explanation is necessary; for those who don't believe in God no explanation is possible.

Leowin: Don't worry Luthiel. 'Truth's existence never depended upon belief.

Grace cannot prevail until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.

Most preachers say the nature of God is unknowable, but I'm certain of one thing at least. God almighty has a sense of humor.

The [Israelis] believed - they were possessed of an absolute certainty and conviction - that 'terrorists' were in Chatila. How could I explain to them that the terrorists had left, that the terrorists had worn Israeli uniforms, that the terrorists had been sent into Chatila by Israeli officers, that the victims of the terrorists were not Israelis but Palestinians and Lebanese?

Your goal as an investor should be simply to purchase, at a rational price, a part interest in an easily understood business whose earnings are virtually certain to be materially higher, five, ten, and twenty years from now. Over time, you will find only a few companies that meet those standards-so when you see one that qualifies, you should buy a meaningful amount of stock.

It certainly is no proof that a man is inspired simply because he is right.

Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise.

Belief is not a voluntary thing. A man believes or disbelieves in spite of himself.

we are taught that God is exceedingly anxious that we should believe a certain thing.

It does not occur to him that it is necessary to account for the existence of an infinite personality. He is perfectly certain that there can be no design without a designer, and he is equally certain that there can be a designer who was not designed.

Yet Strike remained certain her flight to Ross had been self-immolation, done purely for spectacular effect, a Charlottian form of sati.

You have got it exactly. All the other states just vanish. The land of maybe becomes the land that never was . At that point all the other states cease to be in any way real. They become, if you like, just dreams or fantasies, and the observed state is the real one. This is called reduction of the quantum states . You will soon get used to it.