Quotes About Certainty

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same

I was always certain of your father's love, because when he fell for me I was looking less attractive than a water buffalo

Human beings who turn away from God lose love, and certainty

I disapprove of certainties, said Virgil Jones. They limit one's range of vision. Doubt is one aspect of width.

In a time of constant transformation, beatitude is the joy that comes with belief, with certainty.

I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.

What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself a kind of belief. Doubt.

Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself a kind of belief. Doubt.

True is such a twentieth-century concept. The question is, can I get you to believe it, can I get it repeated enough times to make it as good as true.

And to prove to himself the non-existence of God, he now stood in the dining-hall of the city's most famous hotel, with pigs falling out of his face.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

The fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity does not worry me in the least should suggest to you just how inadequate I think your reasons for being a Christian are.

If faith is what you have to go on, if faith is the link between your beliefs and the world at large, your beliefs are very likely to be wrong. Beliefs can be right or wrong. If you believe you can fly, that belief is only true if indeed you can fly. Somebody who thinks he can fly, and is wrong about it, will eventually discover there's a problem with his view of the world.

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.

People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power. The only thing we should respect in a person's faith is his desire for a better life in this world; we need never have respected his certainty that one awaits him in the next.

Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.

Once a person believes - really believes - that certain ideas can lead to eternal happiness, or to its antithesis, he cannot tolerate the possibility that the people he loves might be led astray by the blandishments of unbelievers. Certainty about the next life is simply incompatible with tolerance in this one.

Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.

Faith is the mortar that fills the cracks in the evidence and the gaps in the logic, and thus it is faith that keeps the whole terrible edifice of religious certainty still looming dangerously over our world.

Nothing is more sacred than the facts.

Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious.

We must find our way to a time when faith, without evidence, disgraces anyone who would claim it.

Faith, if it is ever right about anything, is right by accident.

Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.