Quotes About Certainty

Nothing is so sure as the final oblivion.

How can you expect me to believe that?whether you believe it or not does not change the nature of truth

Am I allowed to ask my book whether it's true I wrote it?

Las olas dicen a la costa firme: Todo sera cumplido.

I don't know what I am, but I wouldn't want a faith that couldn't handle facts.

I think I understand that religious faith which makes the holy brave and strong; my strength is just somewhere else--it's in myself...I do not fear what may await me, though I'm equally confident that nothing awaits.

And she did not have to ask if this were right, no one had to tell her, because this could not have been more right or perfect.

Era fácil decirlo. Era muy fácil creérselo todo. Pero también era muy fácil no creer en nada en absoluto.

It is so. It cannot be otherwise.

He meant—once you have made a careful decision based on facts, go into action. Don't stop to reconsider. Don't begin to hesitate, worry and retrace your steps. Don't lose yourself in self-doubting which begets other doubts.

We are required to "bet our life" that the visible world, while real, is not reality itself.

No, you don't have to certain about anything you're not certain about. In fact, certainty is not something you can choose, anyway. Certainty and uncertainty are not things that are under the will.

This not-knowing is a game of irresponsibility. It is a way of saying I'm not responsible. I'm an agnostic.

everyone has been certain and wrong. Certainty is a psychological state that you can work up. You see a lot of this in religious groups. They are trying to work up certainty, but that is a terrible mistake. When you convey knowledge, you are giving people things they can test and find to be true in reality.

Faith is not opposed to evidence that we might gain from perception as well as from reason.

Tension is living in the gap between certainty and uncertainty. We always begin with what we know, and are irresistibly drawn to what we don't know. We are inveterately curious. We are wired to grow, and all growth stretches us beyond our comfort level. Comfort is the absence of tension; growth requires a swim in murky, dangerous waters... Tension is the medium which we breathe everyday.

National Association of Evangelicals)

There's just no substitute for the truth.

Widespread acceptance of an idea is not proof if its validity. -Robert Langdon

That is the definition of faith -- acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

But faith," Edmond declared, "by its very definition, requires placing your trust in something that is unseeable and indefinable, accepting as fact something for which there exists no empirical evidence.

But faith by its very definition, requires placing your trust in something that unseeable and indefinable, accepting something of which there exists no empirical evidence. And so, understandably, we all end up placing our faith in different things because if there is no universal truth. - Edmond Kirsch

Atheism is simply an admission of the obvious.

Nothing left to chance.