Quotes About Certainty

Have faith in your own thoughts.

It's one thing to guess or use trial and error with respect to trivial matters or decisions that can easily be reversed, but you should try for a higher degree of certainty before buying a car or a house, and a higher degree still when choosing a spouse or a president.

is possible for the person who has faith. Still

In fact, without doubt, there is no faith.

As one family therapist famously put it, we tend to prefer the "certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty.

we feel better with the certainty of misery than the misery of uncertainty

tendemos a preferir la "certeza de la miseria a la miseria de la incertidumbre".

The most destabilizing thing for anyone is to have their core beliefs challenged. As psychologist Virginia Satir puts it, we feel better with the certainty of misery than the misery of uncertainty. Good or bad, we are attracted to things that are familiar.

To choose the sure thing is treason to the soul.

Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to man etc. Then he becomes a slave to the patter and takes the pattern to be the real thing.

To doubt is to think, and thought is the only thing in the universe whose existence cannot be denied, because to deny is to think.

God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of.

I've only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don't trust my head, I don't trust my heart, I trust my gut.

My findings may not be watertight, but they are more than seaworthy.

What you have learned in the light, my friend, never doubt when it is dark.

Ignorance is ignorance, not a licence to believe what we like.

Come what will, one comfort's always left — that unfailing comfort is, it's all predestinated.

Religious people tend to encounter, among those who are not, a cemented certainty that belief in God is a crutch for the weak and fearful. It would be just as silly to assert that disbelief in God is a crutch for the immoral and the ill-read.

I know not what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

Nigdy nie mia?em zbyt du?o czasu na zastanawianie si?, ale czu?em, ?e moje instynkty by?y s?uszne.

Naturally, also, both sides were convinced they had right on their side, not that either was remotely naive enough to think that had any possible bearing on the outcome whatsoever.

I know that the sun exists because I can see it; I believe that the earth goes around it because logical calculation concludes that, and it is not contradicted by what I can see. I know that unicorns exist because such a creature is possible in nature and reliable people have seen one, even though I have not myself

must say that I think we can accept