Quotes About Certainty

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.

Nothing safer than dead

Don't go yet," he said, but it was never any use saying don't go yet to her. When she'd decided a thing, she was on her way.

The combination of power, optimism and abstract thinking makes powerful people more certain. The more cut-off they are from others, the more confident they are that they are right.

If! If! If There were so many ifs in life, never any certainty of anything, never any security...

Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred.

Unsettling are the days in which everyone is an expert.

... anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong, we shall soon find out and can do the other thing. But not to decide wastes both time and money and may ruin everything.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.

I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.

The best way not to fail again is to be absolutely positive that when you do it this time, you're going to do it right.

To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.

It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.

A great advantage of X-ray analysis as a method of chemical structure analysis is its power to show some totally unexpected and surprising structure with, at the same time, complete certainty.

Second guessing a decision is a waste of time.

Skepticism is only a time-based reality, and as an ultimate reality, it's always wrong, because everything always happens.

I am never afraid of what I know

But, God knows best, I concluded.

It's well to have such a comfortable assurance regarding the worth of those we love. I only wish you may not find your confidence misplaced.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. Faith also means reaching deeply within, for the sense one was born with, the sense, for example, to go for a walk.

When we are stuck in our convictions and personas, we enter into the disease of having good ideas and being right.

To paraphrase Paul Tillich, the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty.