Quotes About Certainty

Let him have all the perfections in the world, I think it ought not to be set down as certain that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happen to like himself.

The moment our lips met, I knew with pure and piercing certainty that I would have waited for him forever.

L'avrebbe trovata?Senza il minimo dubbio.L'avrebbe salvata?Sempre.

I shall tell you. My thesis is this, I want you to believe. To believe what? To believe in things that you cannot.

To believe in things that you cannot. Let me illustrate. I heard once of an American who so defined faith, 'that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.' For one, I follow that man. He meant that we shall have an open mind, and not let a little bit of truth check the rush of the big truth, like a small rock does a railway truck.

No necesitamos pruebas. ¡No le pedimos a nadie que nos crea!

Fe: Es una facultad que nos permite creer en cosas que sabemos que no son ciertas.

Faith: 'that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.

la fe de esta manera: Es esa facultad que nos permite creer en lo que nosotros sabemos que no es verdad.

Una vez escuché a un norteamericano que definía la fe de esta manera: "Es esa facultad que nos permite creer en lo que nosotros sabemos que no es verdad.

I am satisfied that Lucy's body is not in that coffin; but that only proves one thing.' 'And what is that, friend John?' 'That it is not there.

if Death came he should find me ready

çünkü yaÅŸam, yapt???m?z ÅŸeyden baÅŸka bir ÅŸeyi beklemektir sadece ve hakk?yla güvenebileceÄŸimiz tek ÅŸey ölümdür.

Bir ÅŸeyden eminim. GüneÅŸ bugünkü turunu atarken bundan daha mutsuz bir evin üzerine doÄŸmayacak.

Faith, that which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.

This surpassed the fear of death. Death would be a mercy if it would make the feeling stop, the uncontrollable panic mingling with the mind-scrambling certainty of something sinister approaching, something with no need to hurry, something that would not be so kind as to let him die. The fear was palpable, suffocating, irresistible.

The surprise is on the far side. You're sure? Positive. It better not be another fairy, Seth said. What's the matter with fairies? I've already seen about a billion of them and also they turned me into a walrus.

Vannessa wasn't wrong.

That is what mature faith requires — not pride over how much one sees and understands, but humility, the feeling that one is still a child, certain of so little, still so dependent on God and others, with so much still to learn — including so much more to learn about humility.

Acknowledging how little we know is, I think, at the core of mature faith. What we boast of as great faith may merely be a boatload of indoctrination and overconfidence.

There is a difference — subtle but very significant — between having faith in my faith (i.e., faith in my intellectual concepts about God — another way of saying "leaning on my own understanding") and having faith in God. There is a corresponding difference between doubting my faith and doubting God.

Yes, you can choose to say you believe something. But whether you actually and authentically do believe it is less choosable than it seems.

For some of us, faith is a fortress of certainty we will defend to the death. For others, faith is a prison to leave behind forever.

For Watts, then, while faith is unreserved openness to the truth—a refusal to reduce truth to what we already understand, beliefs are ideas we cling to because we wish they were true or want them to be true.