Quotes About Certainty

You can know things all you like, and someday you might believe them.

You can know things all you like, but that doesn't mean you believe them.

You can know all the things you like, but that does not mean you believe them.

She was wrong." I shrugged. "I can say that," I said. "It's harder to believe it.

You can know all the things you like, but that doesn´t mean you believe them

You can know things all you like, but it doesn't mean that you believe them.

To believe with certainty we must begin by doubting.

If you have the choice between humble and cocky, go with cocky. There's always time to be humble later, once you've been proven horrendously, irrevocably wrong.

writing home" here in the wilderness of australia writing home becomes easy in spite of the spreading wild fires there is less heat, more certainty. writing home, writing this i think of those without real homes– our city, people say, provides houses which do not, often, bring one home.

Lieutenant Harry Kim was, without doubt, the most optimistic individual she had ever known. No matter how close the darkness came, his determination to overcome it and certainty that goodness would prevail was refreshing. Conlon

Absolute certainity might seem comforting, but is actually proof that you've given up

The ability to admit that you do not know is the surest indication of your enduring strength, Kathryn," he insisted. "Absolute certainty might seem comforting, but is actually proof that you've given up. You will learn no more once you have decided you know. Yes, it's harder to live with the certainty that you don't know, that you will surely fail again. But it is essential if you intend to take command of that fleet." Janeway

They may think they understand how God works, but if were were able to understand how God works, we wouldn't need faith, now would we?

Voltaire, the French philosopher and writer of the Enlightenment era who lived for many years just a few miles away from where I am writing this book, once said: "Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one."74

But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe…

She will see & know for certain that everything is going to be just fine. But this day, this first day,... & when the wings of change have brushed against her life yet again, she just wants to be pissed off.

She knows that women who have climbed through a large chunk of their lives are always wise enough to realize that certainty equals uncertainty.

She is sure of many things. She is certain that her daughter loves her in a way that will last forever. She's sure that she has this moment, this day, & maybe a few hours after that. She's sure of the past, & what might linger on the horizon only as far as she can see. She's certain that if you take your grief & you hold on tight to it, it multiplies & divides & soon conquers you so that it wins a war that was never meant to be started.

Instead of answering, I just wrapped my arms around him and kissed him for all I was worth. Because when you meet The One, you just know.

Not all is certainty in our world, Karigan. If it were, there'd be no opportunity for faith, and then it would be a very dull existence.

The worst can always be true," Papa said grimly.

And what is faith?" "The deliberate confidence in the character of God whether we understand or not.

For years he'd strived to make a difference in the world, and he'd worked like a dog to make that happen, and yet here he was, a man sitting on a dock with his children, and never had he felt more certain that his words mattered.

The etymology of the word "conscience" tells us that it is a special form of "knowledge" . . .The peculiarity of "conscience" is that it is a knowledge of, or certainty about, the emotional value of the ideas we have concerning the motives of our actions.