Quotes About Certainty

You must know your own true being as indomitable, fearless, ever victorious. Once you know with absolute certainty that nothing can trouble you but your own imagination, you come to disregard your desires and fears, concepts and ideas, and live by truth alone.

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.

Of this at least I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time.

But I was commanded to believe; and yet it corresponded not with what had been established by calculations and my own sight.

What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.

Salem is in part a story of what happens when a set of unanswerable questions meets a set of unquestioned answers.

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

The truth is your servant, not your master. What is the truth, anyway? Does any of us really know what's true? And is truth an absolute? Can't things be sort of true? A little bit true? True in a deeper sense? True enough for military work? True for me, not for you? All too true?

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

no estoy cansado. Sólo hay una cosa que cansa a los hombres: la vacilación, la incertidumbre. Cualquier acción libera nuestro ánimo, incluso la peor resulta mejor que la inacción.

Sólo hay una cosa que cansa a los hombres: la vacilación, la incertidumbre. Cualquier acción libera nuestro ánimo, incluso la peor resulta mejor que la inacción.

Whatever might happen in life, whether I liked it or didn't like it, I could know one thing for sure: it would change. There was absolute certainty in uncertainty, in some ways an enormous comfort.

If you feel it to be true, it is.

It has been said "the truth will make men free". The truth alone has never set anyone free. It is only DOUBT which will bring mental emancipation.

The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

An argument may remove doubt, but only the Holy Spirit can convict of truth.

Nothing is absolute any longer. There is a choice of beliefs and a choice of truths to go with them. If you choose not to choose then there is no truth at all. There are only points of view.