Quotes About Certainty

Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

I'm So Sorry' is probably one of my favorite songs that I've written... I wrote it very quickly and confidently. And then I didn't question it.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

The cubism of Braque or Picasso, the dissonant compositions of Schoenberg or Stravinsky, the free-flowing and often erotic choreography of Isadora Duncan and Nijinsky - these were acts of rebellion against the certainties and traditions of the old world.

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.

Romney and Democratic rival President Obama have led their partisan backers down a trail of lies, negativity and vacuous policies that seem certain to guarantee an angry electorate four more years of gridlock.

Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must always have their consequences. At the same time, there is the other certainty that, through progressive evolution, by slow adaptation to the conditions of environment, they may be transformed.

Anxiety is a method of seeking two experiences: certainty and comfort. The problem is that it wants these two outcomes immediately and continually," according to Reid Wilson and Lynn Lyons, the authors of Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents.8 To give children the certainty and comfort they're seeking requires that we rescue them from scary situations. And every time we rescue, we perpetuate the belief that they need to be rescued. It also makes them more demanding the next time.

there are the non-believers, make believers and true believers!

I am not moved by what I see. I am moved only by what I believe. I know this-no man looks at appearances if he believes. No man considers how he feels if he believes. The man who believes God has it.

What I do not know, I do not think I know.

I neither know nor think that I know

Death is a vast mystery, but there are two things we can layabout it: It is absolutely certain that we will die, and it is uncertain when or how we will die. The only surety we have, then, is this uncertainty about the hour of our death, which we seize on as the excuse to postpone facing death directly. We are like children who cover their eyes in a game of hide-and-seek and think that no one can see them.

At the heart of all religions is the certainty that there is a fundamental truth, and that this life is a sacred opportunity to evolve and realize it.

The simplicity of total trust is one of the most powerful forces in the world.

But what we thought to be 'right,' turned out overnight to be 'wrong.' We may live another forty or fifty years, but are we ever going to be able to believe in anything again—in a 'right' that can't be altered, in a 'wrong' that isn't going to change on us? If we don't resolve this for ourselves, no amount of study is ever going to help us build conviction in anything.

Trust your instincts: they tend to see you right. By listening to them, at least you can sleep at night.

It is among the more pointless of my habits: wondering what I ought to do when there is no doubt about what I am going to do.

Sudden conviction races through me, almost terrifying in its total certainty. I can't give him up. He's the other part of me. He gets what it feels like to be separate from everything and everyone, to reject the path others lay out for you. We're the same. Two sides to the same coin.

No one can surely know what knowledge is without the presence of truth.

Is there anyone that knows the absolute truth?

The truth can only be absolute as any relativity may include the untruth towards the system of reference where it varies.

Believing in what you don't know is as true as believing in what you know as long as your life is just an illusion.

I believed in the faith of faith without acknowledging his quality of being an absolute truth.