Quotes About Certainty

Chi dubita di se stesso di rado sbaglia.

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.

I felt free this time, knowing I had a job and that I wasn't going to be graded. I could simply experiment and create. The thought occurred to me that if I always lived under the certainty of God's provision instead of the certainty of Lexi's worry, I might always feel this free.

This was partly why she believed what she had been told:

I like things to be clearly defined. Trouble brews when the lines are blurred. When people don't know where they stand.

We have to hesitate, to temper the strength of our tendencies with doubt; to waver when we are sure, or even because we are sure.

They were both so young and both so sure that life would work out exactly as they hoped. Well, already plans and vows lay shattered across the floor. Could they not see that?

I had my whole life planned.. I knew exactly where it was taking me..

Mom always says that doubt is just another way of expressing faith.

There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.

But it's strange, when you've always been told something is true, like the moon will come back. You need proof. And while you wait, you feel the entire balance of your world just tipping. It's crazy. But when it's over, and it does come back, that's the best, because it's all you want, everything narrows to just that. It's this great rush, like for that one second everything's okay with the world again. It's amazing.

So he didn't have to prove how he felt about me. Like so much else, I should just know.

And that was it; it was so easy for her. My own memories did not even belong to me. But I knew she was wrong. I had seen that comet. I knew it as well as I knew my own face, my own hands. My own heart.

You knew the truth all along, Colie. That's all matters. You knew.

She had made her choice, and this was it, where she felt safe, in a world she could, for the most part, control. Page 328

At times, I found myself questioning his very existence, even though I knew I had, in fact, spotted him, with my own eyes.

They do exist. You just have to believe me.

There seems to be no end to the satisfaction one gets in having one's opinions confirmed.

there is anything to be learned from the conspiracy—other than when in doubt, bet on George Washington—it is to beware the pitfalls of certainty.

The answer is no, said Melody firmly. "Undeniably, indisputably, categorically no.

Qué puede temerse de un mundo tan regular?

She believed in nothing, if it wasn't for her skepticism she would be an athiest.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an athiest.

The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with certainty that they possess the right are dark inside and darken the world outside with cruelty, pain, and injustice.