Quotes About Certainty

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.

I didn't want my music to be confused - even though I was and had a lot of questions. I wanted my music to capture a period in my life where I was sure.

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.

Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.

The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.

Life changes a lot. I guarantee you.

If thinking minds, questioning minds, doubting minds, are talking about faith, their whole life will become fake.

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

The only certain things in life are death and taxes!

There is nothing more certain and unchanging than uncertainty and change.

Doubts are death. Doubts are the dry rot of life.

I'm not going to doubt my life.

Life is ever evolving. The only certainty is change.

The disparity between what people said life was and what I knew it to be unnerved me at times, but I swore that nothing would ever make me say life should be anything.

Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.

The nature of the spiritual life is that we are certain in our uncertainty.

The eighties weren't just about androgyny, and in a sense they embraced polymorphous perversity in a way it had never been embraced before, an exploration of self that hadn't been as intense since the sixties. This was a new type of bohemianism, one empowered by a certainty and an optimism that was only fleeting back in the so-called Swinging Sixties.

Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

Often faith comes in the aftermath of doubt and doubt comes in the aftermath of faith. And the one that comes second is often much more powerful. In the end we have to abandon both.

It is a gift to be able to kill doubt with doubt.