Quotes About Certainty

It is the truth which is always the hardest to believe.

Truth exists: whatever a man not able to tell is actually a truth!

A lie set down on paper in wet ink becomes the truth when dry.

If I say I'll help you I'll help you. If I say I'll kill you I'll kill you. Everything else is ripples of maybe.

To make a statement that one knows is false is more honest than to make a statement that one knows is true.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

The world doesn't want you to know. They want you to believe. But there is a big difference between believing and knowing. Should you believe in yourself or should you know yourself?

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

People respond well to those that are sure of what they want.

True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.

Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.

God's truth is not weak or questionable; it is not a theory waiting to be proven false. God's truth, instead, is certain and can be counted on.

Orthodox theologian Michael Oleksa makes the point that the Christian, while knowing where Christ is, can never be certain where he is not.61

The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks. (65)

What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176)

Neither wanted to claim that these discoveries "proved" the existence of God. They cautioned that science cannot "prove" anything with absolute certainty.

Earlier, in 1954, biochemist George Wald argued for the causal efficacy of chance in conjunction with vast expanses of time. As he explained, "Time is in fact the hero of the plot…. Given so much time, the impossible becomes possible, the possible probable, and the probable virtually certain."2

Agnostics are just atheists without balls.

Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.

The dogmatist within is always worse than the enemy without.

He was the sort of man who only wanted to be told what he already assumed was true.

A man can learn much, but learning is not knowledge. The only true source of infallible certainity is divine illumination.

Any belief that puts itself beyond doubt nurtures its own collapse.

Be true, unbeliever.