Quotes About Certainty

Faith is believing in something you know isn't true.

Cartersian doubt (deliberate suspension of all interpretations of experience that are not absolutely certain)

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.

The strongest, the most certain thing I think I know about the process is there is really, really good news if you end up feeling lucky rather than clever.

If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.

1. What have you learned that is true (and how do you know)? 2. What problem do you have?

I was happy, free in a way I had never been, ever. It was the oddest sensation. Not ecstasy, not satisfaction, not a surfeit of pleasure or accomplishment. It was a purer delight, a rogue anticipation with certainty.

Would it be all right? Would it be all right to go ahead and feel? Go ahead and count on something

Ruth looked for the water mark several times during the day. She knew it was there, would always be there, but she needed to confirm its presence. Like the keeper of the lighthouse and the prisoner, she regarded it as a mooring, a checkpoint, some stable visual object that assured her that the world was still there; that this was life and not a dream. That she was alive somewhere, inside, which she acknowledged to be true only because a thing she knew intimately was out there, outside herself.

fingers into his socks, looking up the inside back of his coat. If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.

Death is a sure thing but life is just as certain. Problem is you can't know in advance.

The opposite of faith is not doubt. The opposite of faith is disobedience.

Muchos creyentes le dicen a Dios: «Muéstrame y creeré»; pero Dios dice: «Cree y verás».

Elle se sentait tellement déconcertée par la contradiction existant entre ce qu'elle pensait et ce qu'on espérait d'elle qu'elle était incapable de parler. Peut-être valait-il mieux qu'elle se taise, en attendant d'être plus sûre de ce qu'elle voulait dire. Ainsi ses paroles ne pourraient-elles être déformées et lui être renvoyées à la figure.

Blind belief is dangerous.

nothing like a few days of people telling you that you are mad and deluded when you know that you are telling the truth to turn the brain.

Polemical, conflicting, attention-grabbing headlines like these are the mainstay of the media. And with good reason. It isn't truth that grabs our brains. It is certainty. It isn't balanced, considered analysis that captures our attention. It is bold and confident assertion.

The sovereignty of God has been dying a slow death of a thousand qualifications.

he couldn't see the wisdom of it from the point of view of anyone who wanted to live. He self-corrected his thoughts – anyone who was desperate to live. He wanted to live, of course he did, but at this precise moment he was happy enough to gamble his life for a bit of certainty. He had a lot to lose, but it was all in the future, not the present, and that potential loss wasn't tangible enough to trouble him; he'd already lost too much that was real.

I knew that until I truly believed that whatever I did was the exact right thing, I'd keep doing the wrong thing.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

Ask a man enough questions, and his belief in his understanding fades before him as does a dream upon waking—unless it is a true understanding.

I always trust my gut reaction it's always right.