Quotes About Certainty

We will find the cure, ma'am. I give you my word.

ain't nothing to worry about." -Alby

What's gonna happen'll happen.

faith is not fundamentally a developmental phenomenon

Belief, in one of its accepted senses, may consist in a merely intellectual assent, while faith implies such confidence and conviction as will impel to action.

Pianist Clifford Curzon tells about his celebrated teacher Artur Schnabel cautioning his piano students: " 'Play nothing before you hear it'—or, 'First hear, then play.' He knew that only certainty of conception could produce clarity of presentation." And it is so in mining a text for its meaning and message.

When you believe something to be true, you are "in one mind" about accepting it; when you do not believe something to be true, you are "in one mind" about rejecting it. "To doubt," Os Guinness writes, "is to waver between the two, to believe and disbelieve at once and to be 'in two minds.

Whenever we make a decision about something, most of us want to be sure, beyond any doubt, of what is absolutely true. That will never happen spiritually. We're talking about God, and there is no way you can get every question about him answered. If you could fathom everything that there is to know about God, he'd be no bigger than your mind—no larger than your intellect—and that would be a small God. The goal isn't to get every answer, but enough answers.

I gather from Don Juan's teachings that psychotropics are used to stop the flow of ordinary interpretations and to shatter certainty. CARLOS CASTANEDA, VOICES AND VISIONS Why

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

Comparing your beloved to a red, red rose might be fine if you're writing a poem, but these thinkers believed more exact language was needed to express the "truth"-a term, by the way, distilled from Icelandic, Swedish, Anglo-Saxon, and other non-English words meaning "believed" rather than certain.

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith.

It had always seemed to her that what people thought of as possible only revealed the borders of their own fragment of eternity. Two hundred years earlier, flight had been unimaginable, germs were undreamed of, and doctors treated the sick by bleeding them, sometimes to death. For Hallie, the only certainty was that the world and their knowledge of it would keep changing, which made the thing denoted by the word "impossible" itself an impossibility.

The people I know who thought brutal thoughts and acted in brutal ways - the racists, the sexists, the bigots - never seemed to doubt themselves. They were always sure that they were right... I almost envied them the strength of their beliefs. It must have made life so much easier for them.

Two and two the mathematician continues to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

A true Master Player plays as thought the game is already in the past, according to a script whose every detail is known prior to the play itself.

Moral Skepticism is the idea that there is no such thing as objective moral truth.

cuando respondemos de modo visceral a un asunto, es tentador suponer que simplemente sabemos lo que debe ser la verdad, sin siquiera tener que considerar los argumentos opuestos.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

I want to be, if I can, as sure of the world--the real world--around me as is possible. Now, you can only attain that to a certain degree, but I want the greatest degree of control.

Craftwork--it is neither as easy as faith, nor as sure as science.

I worked so hard to understand it that it must be true.