Quotes About Certainty

Doubt, Master Liu always said, is death.

It becomes a matter of faith in faith.

Confidence is a feeling of certainty, a natural inner resource that can be summoned whenever you want it.

Security is a feeling of certainty that everything is OK and that all your basic needs will be provided for

I always knew that we were going to be successful and accomplish and succeed at our dreams. There was never a doubt in my mind. When we were recording 'Appetite For Destruction ' we all knew.

I have strong opinions about ambivalence.

The gentler and kinder the god, the more harsh and cruel its worshippers, for they hold to their conviction with taut certainty, febrile in its extremity, and so cannot abide dissenters. They will kill, they will torture, in that god's name. And see in themselves no conflict, no matter how bloodstained their hands.

He argued that every certainty is an empty throne. That those who knew but one path would come to worship it, even as it led to a cliff's edge. He argued, and in the silence of that ghost's indifference to his words he came to realize that he himself spoke – fierce with heat – from the foot of an empty throne.

Conviction is a fist of stone at the heart of all things. Its form is shaped by sure hands, the detritus quickly swept from view. It is built to withstand, built to defy challenge, and when cornered it fights without honour. There is nothing more terrible than conviction.

If he could sleep on it. He would make his bed with white sheets And disappear into the white, Like a man diving, If he could be certain That the light Would not keep him awake, The light that reaches To the bottom.

We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that.

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.

When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion.

People feel they have been let in on a deep secret of the universe, and they cannot be shaken from that conviction.

Faith isn't faith until it's all you're holding onto.

There is a plague on Man: his opinion that he knows something.

Nichts wird so fest geglaubt wie das, was wir am wenigsten wissen.

if she were its leader. Not that she ever would be: she was born to be a dissenter within a larger certainty, she knows that.

it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime

It made no sense, but nothing did at the moment, and at least this was a good crazy.

The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are the truth. We could swear they are real.

What is real we cannot change, and it doesn't matter what we believe.

La fe es el resultado de un acuerdo.