Quotes About Certainty

He had what we often lack — the maturity to see that faith isn't something you either have or don't have, but something that ebbs and flows in the life and soul of every individual. Doubt isn't the opposite of faith. It is an element of faith. Where there is absolute certainty, there can be no room for faith.

he encouraged them to explore their doubts, ask their questions, and express themselves honestly. Many people crave certainty. They don't want to have to think, agonize, or grapple with life's difficult questions for themselves. Instead they want dogma. They want guaranteed answers.

Suspicions have a way of becoming "facts," even if they have no basis in truth.

Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt.

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. —LETO ATREIDES II, the God Emperor

The hare twitched his ears confidently. "Say no more, laddie. You've come to the right stag.

we express a commitment to that which cannot be established by reason, or to that which can be established by reason but not for that reason.12

We must understand the essence of our faith to be something other than a list of opinions, propositions, or statements that our group holds but cannot prove. (p. 22)

It's foolish to speak of your happiness before you're sure you have it.

The self-confidence that comes with feeling in control is why a person with a clear purpose and a plan always has an edge over someone who is vague or unsure.

They prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty

At the atomic level, matter does not even exist with certainty; it only exists as a tendency to exist.

Reason, said Butler, provides no complete system of knowledge, and in ordinary life it can offer us only probabilities.

There is nothing that isn't true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.

1. Is it true? 2. Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3. How do you react when you believe that thought? 4. Who would you be without the thought?

Reality doesn't wait for our agreement or approval. It is what it is. You can count on it. Gary:

But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all.

It has driven men to extremes, to the impious arrogance of believing they alone can comprehend the vast mysteries of Scripture, let alone the mind of God. Such people are incapable of understanding even their own minds, for they confuse their own needs, for certainty or power, with God's voice speaking to them.

If you believed in something like this, it was true; if you didn't believe in it, it wasn't.

Everyone thinks they know so goddamned much about everything and no one knows fuck all about anything.

nonbelievers will insist on their convictions regardless how many miracles are presented to them

Here comes the word for mystery. Here is the word for true.

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

I've always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.