Quotes About Certainty

We cannot be resolved of any doubt save by experiment

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Here each of us must ask: Have I any religious experience and immediate relation to God, and hence that certainty which will keep me, as an individual, from dissolving int he crowd?

could moreover have assured himself beyond all doubt on this point had he taken counsel with his own omniscience.

Doubt is the crown of life and all certainty is merely one-sided. For in uncertainty and doubt, truth and error come together. Doubt is life. When you are in doubt you have the greatest opportunity to unite the dark and the light sides of life.

were all so sure it was Dallas. Maybe next time you'll listen

One must be very sure of the bank before one opens an account.

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From Descartes's skepticism came the radical belief that the individual seeking certainty trumped a God or king bestowing truth.

The more I studied the issue, the more I noticed that the passion hypothesis convinces people that somewhere there's a magic "right" job waiting for them, and that if they find it, they'll immediately recognize that this is the work they were meant to do. The problem, of course, is when they fail to find this certainty, bad things follow, such as chronic job-hopping and crippling self-doubt.

The fact that you cannot understand it does not mean that it doesn't exist.

Screaming our affirmations can make us sound like we're in doubt

How did you explain a thing it had not occurred to you to question? A thing you just knew, clear through to your soul?

You want me to back off, fine. Prove to me you're not Jo O'Connor and I'll do whatever you say. I'll flap my arms and fly to the moon." "That won't be necessary," I said. "The other side of the room will be just fine." He gave a breathy laugh, the air of it moving across my face, and eased back.

Nunca se deve considerar uma coisa como certa se for apenas quase certa.

si verdaderamente quieres encontrar una disculpa para justificar cualquier cosa, ten la plena seguridad que la hallarás sin mayor dificultad.

Lo malo de quienes se creen en posesión de la verdad es que cuando tienen que demostrarlo no aciertan ni una

When has faith ever been about feelings?

Never say 'never,' my dear. It saves a great deal of embarrassing explanation later.

A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never truly trust anyone else.

I don't need to believe, I know.

I don't need to believe. I know (God exists).

The sure path can only lead to death.