Quotes About Certainty

It's no wonder I eventually started loathing them. Really, who can stand to listen to that level of certainty? To sit through the judgment?

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

To know something, he argued, was not the same as to be certain beyond all doubt. And to believe something was definitely not the same as to know it.

I'm absolutely certain." Say something enough and it not only sounds true, it becomes memory.

We pose only those questions whose answers are the pre-given conditions of the questions themselves.

Love what you will never believe twice.

L'angelo sa di essere indistruttibile. Paradossalmente, è proprio questa sua certezza che lo rende tale.

This seems scientific and disarmingly undogmatic, but it ignores the fact that it is impossible to prove something doesn't exist.

It is a startling thing, the need to feel utterly believed.

If a man will begin with certainties, he will end in doubts," said Francis Bacon, "but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

I hope there isn't,' [a final answer] said Colin. "I'm for uncertainty. As soon as you think you know, you're done for. You don't listen and you can't hear. If you're certain of anything, you shut the door on the possibility of revelation, of discovery. You can think. You can believe. But you can't, you mustn't, 'know'. There's the real Entropy.

A church which pitches its tents without constantly looking out for new horizons, which does not continually strike camp, is being untrue to its calling. . . . [We must] play down our longing for certainty, accept what is risky, and live by improvisation and experiment. Hans Küng, The Church as the People of God

The only principle I'm prepared to absolutely commit to, with absolute certainty, is that I can change my mind.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

We know that there are no self-evident truths.

When the world has been fully codified and collated, when ambivalences and ambiguities have been so sponged away that we know exactly and objectively where everything is and what it is called, a sense of loss arises.

Sooner or later everything boils down to trust. You just have to make that leap of faith.

Truth is truth, no matter who else believes it.

She would worry, just as you worry. It's the people who don't worry—those who never have any doubts that what they're doing is good and right—they're the ones that cause the problems.

Faith is the first step to understanding. Either it's the Word of an infallible God, the fallible words of men, or faith in what you personally believe. You've got to have faith in something. Believe me.

If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it.

I'm not pessimistic about anything.