Quotes About Certainty

It's true. I doubt. I doubt because I seek the truth. Doubt has served me well.

If this is right, I'd rather be wrong. If this is sight, I'd rather be blind.

Faith means that it doesn't matter what happens. You can trust that somebody is watching. Trust that somebody will make it all right.

To believe, it seemed, one had to want to believe.

I still doubt it will work." "You'd doubt the sun's rising if you weren't proven wrong each day," Raoden said with a smile.

Jasnah was never wrong." "This would be a storming bad time for her to break her record

Feelings aren't proof. Feelings are the opposite of proof.' 'Not when the thing you're trying to prove is someone's humanity.

I don't know. 'Errorgant,' perhaps." Jasnah raised a skeptical eyebrow. "It means to be twice as certain as someone who is merely arrogant," Shallan said, "while possessing only one-tenth the requisite facts.

You are offered proof only once you believe, but if you believe, you can find proof in anything. It is a logical conundrum.

We can't know everything - and some of what we think we know is going to turn out to be false.

At the heart of science is accepting only that truth which can be proven. At the heart of faith is define Truth, at its core, as being unprovable.

Kelsier was right again. I wonder if he ever gets tired of that.

I cannot know truth, so I follow one who does.

No podemos dar por sentado que solo porque algo sea antiguo vaya a ser cierto.

Well, little in life is absolutely certain

To be honest, 'arrogant' doesn't feel like quite the right word. It's not specific enough." "And what would be the right word, then?" "I don't know. 'Errorgant,' perhaps." Jasnah raised a skeptical eyebrow. "It means to be twice as certain as someone who is merely arrogant," Shallan said, "while possessing only one-tenth the requisite facts.

Lógicamente inconsistente. Obviamente incierto.

Choosing to be curious is choosing to be vulnerable because it requires us to surrender to uncertainty. It wasn't always a choice; we were born curious. But over time, we learn that curiosity, like vulnerability, can lead to hurt. As a result, we turn to self-protecting—choosing certainty over curiosity, armor over vulnerability, and knowing over learning.

Neither one of us could really articulate how we felt until I heard Lamott referencing Paul Tillich and telling the audience, "The opposite of faith is not doubt—it's certainty." Steve and I didn't leave religion because we stopped believing in God. Religion left us when it started putting politics and certainty before love and mystery.

I don't believe faith and reason are natural enemies. I believe our human desire for certainty and our often-desperate need to "be right" have led to this false dichotomy. I don't trust a theologian who dismisses the beauty of science or a scientist who doesn't believe in the power of mystery.

When religious leaders leverage our fear and need for more certainty by extracting vulnerability from spirituality and turning faith into "compliance and consequences," rather than traching and modeling how to wrestle with the unknown and how to embrace mystery, the entire concept of faith is bankrupt on its own terms.

Steve and I didn't leave religion because we stopped believing in God. Religion left us when it started putting politics and certainty before love and mystery.

what silences our intuitive voice is our need for certainty. Most of us are not very good at not knowing. We like sure things and guarantees so much that we don't pay attention to the outcomes of our brain's matching process.

The opposite of faith is not doubt--it's certainty. Paul Tillich. I didn't leave religion because we stopped believing in God. Religion left us when it started putting politics and certainty before love and mystery.