Quotes About Certainty

Bertrand Russell writes that the painful thing "about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.

It is the seeming contradiction that we must be fully committed, but we must also be aware at the same time that we might possibly be wrong.

I love you', she said, to remind me that there was one answer to everything, and only one.

C'est fini, Gary Cooper. Fini pour toujours. Fini, l'Américain tranquille, sûr de lui et de son droit, qui est contre les méchants, toujours pour la bonne cause, et qui fait triompher la justice et gagne toujours à la fin. Adieu l'Amérique des certitudes.

Credeva nella sventura perché era solo. Per la speranza bisogna essere in due. Tutte le leggi dei grandi numeri cominciano con questa certezza.

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.

The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.

If the opposite of certainty is doubt, humility must lie somewhere between the two

Absolute confidence or clarity is the privilege of fools and fanatics.

Hope implies a deep-seated trust in life that appears absurd to most who lack it."277

Miroslav Volf notes that "the certainty of God's just judgment at the end of history is the presupposition for the renunciation of violence in the middle of it.

Let's hope so is not faith. Faith says I know and smiles... - Rooma Mehra

Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.

She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.

So you see, once a person drops the scales of prejudiced certainty and doubts appear, there is no telling how far a heart can open.

For a while in my life I'd lived with the certainty that I would be held in love, and now I was sleeping in a parking lot.

faith in that which is seen and unseen.

Es una de las cosas buenas de este mundo. Uno está siempre seguro de que habrá más primaveras. - Ana. Ana de Avonlea

The idea of God is the ignorance which solves all doubt by repressing it.

God as God is feeling … yet shut up, hidden; … Christ is the unclosed, open feeling of the heart. … Christ is the joyful certainty of feeling that its wishes hidden in God have truth and reality, the actual victory over death, over all the powers of the world and Nature, the resurrection no longer merely hoped for, but already accomplished; … the Godhead made visible.

If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.

If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.

A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.

There can never be surprises in logic.