Quotes About Certainty

Instead of vacillating, we need to value, acknowledge and trust our intuition for what it is, a sense of truth.

Faith would not be neccesary if one could be sure about everything.

faith would not be necessary if one could be sure about everything.

Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.

The attitude of mourning is a faithless attitude, an ignorant attitude. The more we know, the more fully we shall trust, for we shall feel with utter certainty that we and our dead are alike in the hands of perfect Power and perfect Wisdom, directed by perfect Love.

Our civic life is heavily marked—indeed, pocked—by debates in which each side is so certain of its position that any movement is effectively impossible. For that matter, debate—in its original sense of "to consider something, to deliberate"—is impossible. We wind up with so much sound and fury and nothing gained.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves and wiser people so full of doubt.

This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover's presence.

There's nothing like being old to be sure of everything.

A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.

Only in a world where faith is difficult can faith exist.

The Jews proposed the ridiculous story that the guards had fallen asleep. Obviously, they were grasping at straws. But the point is this: they started with the assumption that the tomb was vacant! Why? Because they knew it was!

I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.

Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.

p.45: Es preferible acertar aproximadamente a equivocarse precisamente.

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Even though there are no ways of knowing for sure, there are ways of knowing for pretty sure.

No lo entendían, pero, como tantos otros sucesos desafortunados de la vida, no por no entenderlos dejan de ser ciertos

It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is the one who is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right. Right?

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so

She wouldn't have to be lying to be wrong.

By its very nature every architecture is a statement about what we expect to remain constant and what we admit may vary.

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Always, no sometimes, think it's me But you know I know when it's a dream I think I know I mean a "Yes" but it's all wrong That is I think I disagree