Quotes About Certainty

All I am certain of right now is that I don't want to go anywhere, and that's not bad for someone who always used to run.

concentrate on knowing what is falsey, and then everything else you can consider truthy. Let's look at some examples of using these falsey values

The only result of a horse race which historians can tell us with absolute confidence is one that has already been run.

A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand. A doctrine that is understood is shorn of its strength.

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

What we do know for certain is that he made up his mind to take the 125 wagons with him into Pennsylvania. The decision triggered a controversy that has raged for more than 140 years.

What made him stand out, to some as an inspiration, to others as an oddity, and to others as an offense, was that he did not hope that God heard his prayers, but knew it.

The rich world of his ancestors set the standards for Dietrich Bonhoeffer's own life. It gave him a certainty of judgment and manner that cannot be acquired in a single generation. He grew up in a family that believed the essence of learning lay not in a formal education but in the deeply rooted obligation to be guardians of a great historical heritage and intellectual tradition.

if it be a work of grace, it cannot fail.

True faith is not a leap in the dark; it's a leap into the light.*

The rich world of his ancestors set the standards for Dietrich Bonhoeffer's own life. It gave him a certainty of judgment and manner that cannot be acquired in a single generation. He grew up in a family that believed the essence of learning lay not in a formal education but in the deeply rooted obligation to be guardians of a great historical heritage and intellectual tradition. —EBERHARD BETHGE

Even if you were to knock my head off, God would still exist.

He did not hope that God heard his prayers; he knew it.

How are you sure we're alive?

If it was wrong, it wouldn't feel right. If he was a killer, she would know.

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

Dass man lebt, ist Zufall; dass man stirbt, ist gewiss.

Only a person with convictions has a genuine possibility to be tolerant. He who accepts no absolute values but clings to polite doubt cannot be tolerant but merely indifferent. He is morally defenseless in the face of evil.

With this life I give you trust. Believe in your Clan and in yourself. Never doubt that you know the right path to take.

Mousefang's right.

With this life, I give you trust.

wouldn't be convinced not matter what