Quotes About Certainty

You'll only fall if you doubt your balance.

Alles wat geen natuurwet is, is dogma.

Een verschrikkelijke haat tegen leerboeken komt vlaagsgewijze over mij. staan niet in leerboeken de dingen beschreven alsof iedereen altijd geweten heeft dat ze zo waren? Niets blijft er in een leerboek over van de moeite, de twijfel en de wanhoop die bestaan hebben voor een bepaalde conclusie was bereikt.

Materialism is adept at transforming illusions of possibility into settled verities.

Full employment does not mean literally no unemployment; that is to say, it does not mean that every man and woman in the country who is fit and free for work is employed productively every day of his or her working life ... Full employment means that unemployment is reduced to short intervals of standing by, with the certainty that very soon one will be wanted in one's old job again or will be wanted in a new job that is within one's powers.

If the sun and moon should doubt, They'd immediately go out.

He who doubts from what he seesWill ne'er believe, do what you please.If the sun and moon should doubtThey'd immediately go out.

restrain the natural impulse in times of ambiguity and disorganization to push prematurely for certainty and closure. It is tempting to rally around, to have "everyone pulling together," in the neutral zone, but be careful that you don't unwittingly squeeze out dissent or other ways of thinking.

Plans are immensely reassuring to most people, not just because they contain information but because they exist.

Beginnings establish once and for all that an ending was real.

Always consider the possibility that you may be wrong. Especially when you are absolutely certain you are right.

Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tune that Chronos sings, Words alone are certain good.

What's the use of held note or a held line That cannot be assailed for reassurance?

That which is possible is inevitable.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.

Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.

He who, from zone to zone,Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight,In the long way that I must tread alone,Will lead my steps aright.

If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

By definition, any belief is something that sombody hopes is true; conversely, a disbelief is a hope that something is not true. Neither has anything whatever to do with the real truth, except to obscure it.

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.

Humana dita argu mentis ac testibus egent; Dei autem sermo ipse sibi testis est, quia necesse est quicquid incorrupta veritas loquitur incorruptum sit veritas testimonium: so Salvan (De Gub. Dei, lib. iii)—men need arguments and witnesses to prove and vouch what they say to be true; but the word of God is a sufficient witness to itself, because what truth itself, which is pure, saith, can be no other than a sincere and true testimony.

Assurance rather is the fruit of faith. It is in faith as the flower is in the root.

Our faith must not depend on our reason, but our reason on faith.