Quotes About Certainty

When the truth affirmed by Christianity is thought of as constituting a series of factual claims open to being assessed by intellectual experts, Christianity opens itself up to a corrosive form of doubt that threatens to destroy it. Later I shall be exploring the deep importance of doubt in the life of faith. However, this importance can only be understood if we think of the truth affirmed by Christianity in a way that is freed from the realm of objectivity.

Could your data be wrong? Could

Could your data be wrong?

Armstrong: Yeah, then all the bits fit together. But maybe I can't explain it to anybody. I just get a very strong feeling that if I start writing the program now it'll work. I don't really know what the solution is. It's like an egg. The chicken's ready to lay the egg. Now I'm ready to lay the egg.

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.

Faith cannot tell us who is right and who is wrong, because each will simply assert that his or her faith is the true one.

Reality is that which, when you don't believe in it, doesn't go away.

REALITY IS THAT WHICH, WHEN YOU STOP BELIEVING IN IT, DOESN'T GO AWAY. —PHILIP K. DICK

?lk sebep? Allah'a inananlar için Allah'a kadar gider; i?kembesinden ba?ka ?eye inanmayanlar için i?kembede kal?r.

There is danger in both belief and unbelief.

Put your faith in what you most believe in.

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.

I have already made up my mind, don't confuse me with facts.

People are looking for someone to tell them what to do and whether what they're doing is good or bad.

Wavefunction collapse is a generator of knowledge: it is not so much a process that gives us the answers, but is the process by which answers are created. The outcome of that process can't, in general, be predicted with certainty, but quantum mechanics gives us a method for calculating the probabilities of particular outcomes. That's all we can ask for.

Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you, its first order of business is to preserve itself, and the way it preserves itself is to keep you from having any doubts, and the way it keeps you from doubting is to blind you to the way things really are. Evidence contrary to the belief can be staring you straight in the face, and you won't see it... True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.

although we have a substantial body of evidence to support this conclusion, and we hold it with a high degree of confidence, it remains possible, albeit extremely improbable, that new evidence or arguments may compel us to revise our view of this matter.

Kahneman and other pioneers of modern psychology have revealed that our minds crave certainty and when they don't find it, they impose it.

I believe that in my generation, the belief in a platonic mathematics has often been a substitute religion for people who have abandoned or even rejected traditional religions. Where can certainty be found in a chaotic universe that often seems meaningless? Mathematics has often been claimed to be the sole source of absolute certainty.

Not to know but to believe that one knows is a disease.

Who never doubted never half believed Where doubt there truth is -- 'tis her shadow.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

truth is rarely the truth and the things you thought weren't true often turn out not to be false.

the things you thought weren't true often turn out not to be false.