Quotes About Certainty

I don't like the word atheist because to me it mirrors the certainty of religion. I preach the gospel of I don't know.

And in the evening After the fire and the light One thing is certain: Nothing can hold back the light Time is relentless And as the past disappears We're on the verge of all things new

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exsists.

Nothing strengthens the case for scepticism more than the fact that there are people who are not sceptics. If they all were, they would be wrong.

We know that we are not dreaming, but, however unable we may be to prove it rationally, our inability proves nothing but the weakness of our reason, and not the uncertainty of all our knowledge as they maintain.

Sceptic, mathematician, Christian; doubt, affirmation, submission.

There is some pleasure in being on board a ship battered by storms when one is certain of not perishing.

Denying, believing and doubting are to men what running is to horses.

What then is man to do in this state of affairs? Is he to doubt everything, to doubt if he is awake, whether he is being pinched or burned? Is he to doubt whether he is doubting, to doubt whether he exists? No one can go that far, and I maintain that a perfectly genuine sceptic has never existed.

To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.

It may be that there are such things as true proofs, but it is not certain.

It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles.

The church has had as much difficulty in proving that Jesus was man, against those who denied it, as in proving that he was God, and both were equally evident.

Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.

One must know when it is right to doubt, to affirm, to submit. Anyone who does otherwise does not understand the force of reason. Some men run counter to these three principles, either affirming that everything can be proved, because they know nothing about proof, or doubting everything, because they do not know when to submit, or always submitting, because they do not know when judgment is called for.

Ambiguity goes just so far and no further.

And thus, by combining the uncertainty of chance with the force of mathematical proof and by the reconciliation of two apparent opposites, she derives her name from both of them and rightfully assumes the wonderful name of Mathematics of Chance!

There is nothing so conformable to reason as to disavow reason

You will come to agree with me.

You say you lost your faith But that's not where it's at You had no faith to lose And you know it

Philosophical dogma doesn't interest me.

Definition destroys ... there's nothing definite in this world