Quotes About Certainty

The issue is not indifference to established knowledge; it's the emergence of a positive hostility to such knowledge. This is new in American culture, and it represents the aggressive replacement of expert views or established knowledge with the insistence that every opinion on any matter is as good as every other. This is a remarkable change in our public discourse. This

Because certainty isn't the same as truth. It just means you're really, really deluded.

There never yet was any truth or principle so irresistibly obvious, that all men believed it at once.

Necredinta nu consta in a crede sau in a nu crede, ci in faptul de a marturisi credinta in ceea ce nu crezi.

Now we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts through the Holy Spirit.

Let scholastic sophisters entangle themselves in their own cobwebs; I am resolved to take my own existence, and the existence of other things, upon trust; and to believe that snow is cold, and honey sweet, whatever they may say to the contrary. He must either be a fool, or want to make a fool of me, that would reason me out of my reason and senses.

Every man feels that he must believe what he distinctly remembers, though he can give no other reason of his belief, but that he remembers the thing distinctly.

I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith.

Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America — that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. At any rate, that is how it seemed to young George Webber, who was never so assured of his purpose as when he was going somewhere on a train. And he never had the sense of home so much as when he felt that he was going there. It was only when he got there that his homelessness began.

The discrepancy between faith and the facts is greater than is generally assumed.

to live, no money. I don't know what, or when, or how. But I do know who. With the utmost certainty, I know who.

in vain forever to find what we've got. I don't know shit about anything, Jenna, and I might be inexperienced, but I know you'll never love anyone like you love me.

It's never the truth that changes.

There is only one person who needs to be convinced that you're a writer. That would be you.

new-and-improved, guilt-free Reality Ultra-Lite: all your beliefs with none of the facts.

Nothing can go wrong now.

There are some roles that are a no-brainer. You just have a sure, instinctive 'Yes!'

None of us should assume stuff.

I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.

Normally, I know what I'm doing.

Am I a racist? No. That simple. And if that's not good enough for you, too bad.