Quotes About Certainty

Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

I'm not any religion myself, but for the record, I'm pretty sure I do believe in God. It's just a feeling I have. I can't prove it, but since when are you supposed to prove a feeling? God is the only situation where they expect you to do that. Plus, God embarrasses people. Which I totally enjoy.

We were busy judging everyone's spiritual state. We had a lot to do. Only God might be able to see their hearts and innermost thoughts, but we had a pretty good idea of how it was going to go for plenty of folks

eternal life and all fundamentalist attempts to describe it are self-defeating. Trying to nail down theological certainties is putting faith in our imagination rather than in God's. It is like me demanding an explanation from Lucy in that

and all fundamentalist attempts to describe it are self-defeating. Trying to nail down theological certainties is putting faith in our imagination rather than in God's. It is like me demanding an explanation from Lucy in that

A Mystery in short is an invitation to the mind. For it means that there is an inexhaustible well of Truth from which the mind may drink and drink again in the certainty that the well will never run dry, that there will always be water for the mind's thirst.

The late Lynn White, a distinguished historian of science, understood just what scientists mean by truth: "It is not a citadel of certainty to be defended against error; it is a shady spot where one eats lunch before tramping on."11

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

Belief is a poor substitute for certain knowledge.

I can't remember exactly when I decided that Konradin had to be my friend, but that one day he would be my friend I didn't doubt.

Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur.

Everyone who doubts knows that he is doubting, so that he is certain of this truth at least, namely the fact that he doubts. Thus every one who doubts whether there is such a thing as truth, knows at least one truth, so that his very capacity to doubt should convince him that there is such a thing as truth.

That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much.

If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

'Faith' means not wanting to know what is true

Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.

In fact he claimed that he was removing an untenable knowledge of God in order to make room for faith.

Une des plus grandes sources d'erreurs, c'est de prendre le probable pour certain, et l'improbable pour impossible.

We just need to feel we know, or we can't rest. And yet much of life is unknowable and will remain so. Lots

It's only when people believe that their beliefs are above questioning, that their beliefs alone are beyond all doubt, that they can be as truly horrible as we all know they can be.

The downfall is that we humans think about a lot of stuff that's not actually real. We crave certainty in areas where there can never be any. That's when we start in with believing the crazy stuff.