Quotes About Certainty

La ventaja de ser abogado en lugar de, pongamos por caso, psicoanalista es que los abogados trabajan en un mundo desprovisto de certeza. Vivimos en el mundo de la persuasión.

A veces lo que mas me asusta no es lo desconocido, sino lo previsible y comprensible.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof.

It's one thing to be certain, but you can be certain and you can be wrong.

I could boast that I was a man, but I could not claim with equal certainty that I was a human being.

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent, and moderate our persuasions.

how vain, I say, it is to expect demonstration and certainty in things not capable of it; and refuse assent to very rational propositions, and act contrary to very plain and clear truths, because they cannot be made out so evident as to surmount every the least (I will not say reason, but) pretence of doubting.

If we will disbelieve everything, because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do muchwhat as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish, because he had no wings to fly.

Faith is nothing but a firm assent of the mind.

Certainty creates strength. Certainty gives one something upon which to lean. Uncertainty creates weakness. Uncertainty makes one tentative if not fearful, and tentative steps, even when in the right direction, may not overcome significant obstacles.

Indeed, the dirty secret of Christian apologetics is this: there is no human argument that is guaranteed to overcome unbelief.

I mean that the more confident people are about their beliefs, the more likely they are to be wrong. It's the ones who are so certain, so black and white, the ones who never consider that they could be wrong or that anyone else could be right, they're the ones who scare me. When you're not confident at least you keep checking what you do and asking yourself if you're on the right track.

The people I knew who thought brutal thoughts and acted in brutal ways—the racists, the sexists, the bigots—never seemed to doubt themselves. They were always so sure that they were right.

A priest could have no anguish, he'd given up happiness, his fixed life moving in the calm of certainty into its end, cursed by no earthly love or longing, all had been chosen years before.

The moment their eyes meet, the moment their hands touch. That certainty. That recognition. You. You are the one. This is what it feels like. Nothing, as it turns out, can take the place of love.

?lov?k v sedmi letech nezná sv?tské špatnosti, nezná bolest a nezná nedoufání, neskli?ují ho vidiny, ale zná ženu. Nikdy zplozenec mužského pohlaví nezná ženu tak jako v sedmi letech. Je pro n?ho tehdy nikoliv oporou, nikoliv radostí a ani žertem. Je jistotou sv?ta; je nesmrtelná.

She was a woman who cared more about what she was right about than about being right.

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

This to certify that I am alive after all; yes, and getting stronger, and intending to be strong before long, though the sense left to me is of a peculiar frailty of being; no very marked opinion upon my hold of life. But life will last as long as God finds it useful for myself and others — which is enough, both for them and me.