Quotes About Certainty

All fanatics loathe the questioning mind and fear the truth.

Only a fool demands proof of what he already knows.

There cannot be even the smallest grain of falsehood in it or it is not truth. I have discovered the source of all truth; how can I deny what I know?

I saw Byzantium in a dream, and knew that I would die there. That vast city seemed to me a living thing: a great golden lion... I felt the dread jaws close on me as I stood screaming. Then I awoke; but my waking brought neither joy nor relief. For I rose not to life, but to the terrible certainty of death. I was to die, and the golden towers of Byzantium would be my tomb. ~ Aidan

Fear arises from uncertainty. Where there is perfect certainty, there is no fear.

It would be a great boon to know where we stand in this world, what is, what has been, what will be. And to know it absolutely.

The only true source of infallible certainty is divine illumination.

Unbelievers enjoy the security of their unbelief; there is great confidence in ignorance. But I had seen the Cythrawl.

What makes you so certain?" "But I am not certain," I told him. "Nothing is certain. You want certainty?" "Yes!" "Then you want death.

Unbelievers enjoy the security of their unbelief; there is great confidence in ignorance.

I have my own theory: ignorance is bliss. The less you know, the more confident you can be in tackling things.

Feeling indifferent or reserved about doing something is a signal that it is probably not correct after all.

If you are going to be a doubter, I don't need your negative energy.

The problem with most people who say they believe, however, is that said belief is only a thin layer of solid ice which rests over a vast ocean that is likewise deep with non-solid disbelief.

I left the court feeling sure that Rose West would never walk free again. That thought made me happy.

If you cast doubt aside then you go beyond where even you could have imagined ....

reality just seems to come in certain undeniable chunks.

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

God is by definition the holder of all possible knowledge, it would be impossible for him to have faith in anything. Faith, then, is built upon ignorance and hope.

It is in the land of dreamers, it is in the land the dreamers dream that dreams of justice and desire are as certain as numbers. It is in the land of insomniacs that justice and desire are dismissed as merely dreams. I was born in the first land and returned to the second: they were one and the same. You know its name.

In these days of great uncertainty, our great God wants His people to know that He can be trusted. And He is giving us the opportunity to find out for ourselves that His promises can be trusted.

One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty, until you try. —Sophocles

Belief is at best an educated, informed conjecture about Reality.

promise you that, mister!