Quotes About Certainty

Real fear, he now knew, took its power not from what could happen but what you realize will happen.

In my youth I looked for answers with a terrible urgency. I craved certainty. Then I started telling myself that, in the end, we have to accept there's a vast amount we just don't know.

we still have a long way to go in terms of creating a rock-solid science that could match the certainty of, say, physics and biology. In the meantime, we all need a personal theory of what makes people tick.

Only through the perception of the indissoluble unity of the two faces of being in creation, the poverty of the soul of humanity and of the world, can we perceive the beauty and the animation and the personification of the things of the world. It is only by the continual perception of this beauty-in-poverty that our certainties, our graspings, our hardnesses of heart can be perpetually undone.

I don't take a lot of notice of odds.

I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer.

Many adult bullies hide behind the idea that bullying happens only among children. They conceive of themselves as adults who know better and are offering their hard-earned wisdom to others. The Internet makes that sort of certainty easier to attain: looking at their screens, adult bullies rarely see the impact of their words and actions.

There's something about having a badge that just makes you feel so official.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

We all doubt sometimes, and that's okay, but He's always there. He's always faithful even when we're not.

I don't question the omnipotence of belief.

If there is one thing I am, it's always right.

One thing about me: I don't try to live out what ifs.

We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final.

You can have opinions, but it doesn't mean they're right.

I form opinions quickly.

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable

My dear fellow, I am prepared to prove anything.

The basis of every scandal is immoral certainty.

Ah! then it must be an illusion. The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

The basis of every scandal is an immoral certainty

I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked. But my name certainly is John. It has been John for years.

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.