Quotes About Certainty

What was it like, she wondered, to wake up every morning knowing exactly where you belonged and where you were going?

One who claims to be a skeptic of one set of beliefs is actually a true believer in another set of beliefs." —PHILLIP E. JOHNSON

Any denial of truth presupposes truth, so the existence of truth is inescapable.

Beliefs cannot change a fact, no matter how sincerely they are held. (Someone can sincerely believe the world is flat, but that only makes that person sincerely mistaken.)

Truth is unchanging even though our beliefs about truth change. (When we began to believe the earth was round instead of flat, the truth about the earth didn't change, only our belief about the earth changed.)

contrary beliefs are possible, but contrary truths are not possible. We can believe everything is true, but we cannot make everything true.

All truth claims are absolute, narrow, and exclusive.

All truths are absolute truths.

contrary beliefs are possible, but contrary truths are not possible.

But truth is not a subjective matter of taste—it's an objective matter of fact.

doubt.Therefore, it takes a lot more faith to be a non-Christian than it does to be a Christian.

We all believe that we are a certain kind of person, but we never know until we do something that proves otherwise, or until we die.

The deeper reality is that I'm not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that I'm certain about how I feel, but that seems naive. How do we know how we feel?…There is almost certainly a constructed schism between (a) how I feel, and (b) how I think I feel. There's probably a third level, too—how I want to think I feel.

All the world's stupidest people are either zealots or atheists. If you want to truly deduce how intelligent someone is, just ask this person how they feel about any issue that doesn't have an answer; the more certainty they express, the less sense they have. This is because certainty only comes from dogma.

Don't confuse disbelief and doubt. Doubt is healthy inquiry. Disbelief is a willful choice.

Believe in me and die forever.

Religions exist because people would rather have a wrong answer than no answer at all.

The greatest weapon any warrior can carry into battle is absolute certainty of her eternal soul.

Don't quote me on any of this. It's been a long time since I've been test­ed

There is no human soul, and I am absolutely for sure seriously not going to fucking cry.

The easy thing to do was give her the ben­efit of the doubt.

In a way, being an addict is very proactive. A good addiction takes the guesswork out of death. There is such a thing as planning your getaway.

You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. Until it's too late.

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