Quotes About Certainty

To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.

My technique is don't believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.

Even when the future's not certain, our hearts can still be certain — of love and happiness and all that's good.

If you believe in your heart, and do not doubt in your mind.

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of the stuff can be lethal.

First Thessalonians 5:24 would have to hold true: "He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it." If God had called us, He would bring it to pass.

The demand for moral uniformity is more often practical than theoretical, a demand for moral certainty where none is possible. It is, for Oakeshott, an essentially religious demand, and although an individual agent can seek absolutely reliable guidance in faith, this is not an option that is available to the theorist.

If you're being honest, you don't have to tell THE truth. Only God knows THE truth.

Ha muerto el Hijo de Dios: es absolutamente creíble, porque es absurdo; y también ha resucitado de la tumba: es cierto, porque es imposible.

It is to be believed because it is absurd.

It is certain because it is impossible

Certum est, quia impossible est.

Credere quia absurdum est

I believe because it is absurd.

The mistake of man is that he always seeks explanations which uphold his view of the world.

An apprentice starts off with the certainty that only by disciplining himself into becoming an impeccable warrior can he live his life without regrets, but by the time he has achieved warriorship, he knows beyond all controversy that impeccability of the spirit is for him his innermost predilection.

The past is certain, the future obscure.

There is nothing in the world that we can count on, even that we will wake up is an assumption

We knew many things, and much that is false. He knew nature, which is always true

Demonstrative proof is lacking, but if we thought only about those things about which such proof were available, our minds would be empty most of the time.

Nothing is always absolutely so

You can't be 100 per cent certain of anything.

Truth exists: whatever a man not able to tell is actually a truth!