Quotes About Certainty

Doubt the clouds in the sky, the movements of the tide, or the turning of this world around its sun. But never, ever doubt me.

Hiçbir ?ey beni, hakk?mdaki bir kanaati düzeltmek kadar korkutmazd?.

O gelmez art?k!'' dedi. ''Nereden biliyorsun?'' dedim. ''Gidi?inden belliydi!'' dedi.

I must doubt everything, or realize my faith by exterminating every obstacle.

If I hold my own opinion to be absolute truth, my own judgment to be the only measure of truth, I constitute myself God.

To be enlightened is not a condition of certainty. It is to move from limited knowing to boundless unknowing, from gravitas to grace. It is to awaken to a condition of borderless ignorance, of limitless uncertainty. When you are no longer bound by the limitations of creation, you are blessed with the freedom of the Creator. The

The spiritual journey is a journey towards clarity, but never towards certainty. When you draw conclusions about beginnings and endings, you are a believer. When you accept that you really do not know anything, you become a seeker. To

To claim a limited end to a limitless process, to reduce the infinite to the finite, to draw borders across the borderless, to make measurements of the unfathomable – this is the beginning of the human impulse to create certainty where none exists. It is the birth of pain, of suffering, of delusion. The

We have reached a point today where authority has become the truth. But soon as we turn inward, we realize that truth is the only authority!

Why all this guesswork? You can see what needs to be done. If you can see the road, follow it.

B.C.)—Stoicism stressed the search for inner peace and ethical certainty despite the apparent chaos of the external world by emulating in one's personal conduct the underlying orderliness and lawfulness of nature.

You have no assurance that they are doing wrong at all, for the motives of man's actions are not always what they seem. There is generally much to learn before any judgement can be pronounced with certainty on another's doings.

Don't stray, but do what's right whenever you're moved to act, and stick with what's clear and certain whenever you think.

self-reliance and an unequivocal determination not to leave anything to chance;

Be not whirled aside; but in every impulse fulfil the claims of justice, and in every impression safeguard certainty.

That Christian faith is about belief is a rather odd notion, when you think about it. It suggests that what God really cares about is the beliefs in our heads—as if "believing the right things" is what God is most looking for, as if having "correct beliefs" is what will save us. And if you have "incorrect beliefs," you may be in trouble. It's remarkable to think that God cares so much about "beliefs.

We should not be too confident in our belief of anything. (Cicero, Tusculan Disputations I.32)

Faith is only a word, embroidered.

The past is so much safer, because whatever's in it has already happened. It can't be changed; so, in a way, there's nothing to dread.

Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?

It must have been then that I began to lose faith in reasonable argument as the sole measure of truth.

Another of those things that must be true because everyone else agrees they are, although they don't seem so to me.

The things I believe can't all be true, though one of them must be. But I believe all of them, all three versions of Luke, at once and the same time. This contradictory way of believing seems to me, right now, the only way I can believe anything. Whatever the truth is, I will be ready for it.

She was not stunned, the way I was. In some strange way she was gleeful, as if this was what she had been expecting for some time and now she'd been proven right.