Quotes About Certainty

We are never to do anything of which we are not perfectly clear and certain. If you have a doubt about that particular thing that is bothering you, as to whether it is worldly or not, the best policy is "don't do it.

I've read the last page of the Bible, it's all going to turn out all right.

To deny, to believe, and to doubt absolutely -- this is for man what running is for a horse.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Faith is different from proof the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.

I truly believe

To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all. But to believe in the unseen is both a triumph and a blessing.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Se debe tener confianza en uno mismo y esa confianza debe estar basada en la realidad" (Bobby Fischer)

I prepare myself well. I know what I can do before I go in. I'm always confident.

In that turbulent time, the happenstance First Lady, Betty Ford, was certain of one thing: she would not change. 'I've spent too many years as me,' she declared. 'I can't suddenly turn into a princess.

I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo?

The less you know, The more you believe.

It takes great faith to have no faith.

I mostly find religiosity annoying, right up at the top of the annoying is the pigheaded certainty of the devout without the doubt.

But from their first word of him, from the message that he was found and was alive, none of the people of Carlow had really doubted it. They are simple country people, and they know that God is good.

Our lives are brief, they are like strings of illusions that die, like little bubbles in our entrails. We don't even know what game it's playing at with us, but we have nothing else. It's the only thing that's more or less certain on this earth.

The wise build their doctrines--theological and philosophical--upon a basis of probabilities, never upon the foundation of absolute certainty.

Faith, to be faith, must center around something that is not known. Faith, to be faith, must go beyond that for which there is confirming evidence. Faith, to be faith, must go into the unknown. Faith, to be faith, must walk to the edge of the light, and then a few steps into the darkness.

It may feel less secure than if everyone agrees on what is true, but the feeling of security is just that - a feeling, not the real thing. Less secure is often more reliable.