Quotes About Certainty

Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

The eighteenth century, which distrusted itself in nothing, as a matter of course, hesitated in nothing.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

The distance between knowing something to be true, and believing it, can be measured in less than the blink of an eye. One's credibility is as fragile as a powder-blue bird's egg. Once cracked, it is shattered irreparably and forevermore lies somewhere just beyond reach, one more body bag of bones on some media heap.

It is certain that no man can be firmly and honestly convinced of the non-existence of God. For, in the first place, no human being enjoying the full use of reason can find a really conclusive argument for the thesis that there is no God.

When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing

But I'm sure I'm right." Squirrelflight's mew grew more certain. "It has to be. It can't be anyone else." She lifted her chin. "I think Ashfur has returned." Bristlefrost frowned, puzzled. Ashfur?

With this life I give you nobility and certainty and faith.

If they get across the tree-bridge without one of them falling in, I'll eat my fur!

But I'm sure I'm right." Squirrelflight's mew grew more certain. "It has to be. It can't be anyone else." She lifted her chin. "I think Ashfur has returned.

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith and the universe is built on faith.

The problem with organized religions, Bill Wilson once explained, "is their claim how confoundedly right all of them are.

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1.

pensaba que tal vez era cierto que estaba loco y creía que no lo estaba porque los que están locos creen que no están locos,

I just have faith. It's just there. It's not any big deal.

I only believe those things which can be proved; but I know full well that proofs are relative and can, and are in fact, continually superseded and cancelled out by other proved facts; and therefore I believe that doubt should be the mental approach of all who aspire to get ever closer to the truth, or at least to that much of truth that it is possible to establish. . .

Such a thing is not possible." I peered quietly at him. "Nothing is possible, sir, until it is made so.

Trust your instincts.

A major reason, I believe, is this: It does not sit comfortably with a person to affirm, and try to live, the claim that we have access to no objective (outside of myself) truth. People are implicitly aware that this claim calls for as much justification as the claim that we do have access to objective truth.

We tend to think knowledge is information, facts, bits of data, "content," true statements—true statements justified by other true statements. And while this isn't exactly false, we tend to have a vision of knowledge as being only this. We conclude that gaining knowledge is collecting information—and we're done—educated, trained, expert, certain.