Quotes About Certainty

I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better....

disaster, when it is quite sure of its own strength, will announce itself by hardly moving its lips...

But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.

Knowing the precies answers is not as crucial as the certainty that the answers do, in fact, exist.

Knowing the precise answers is not as crucial as the certainty that the answers do, in fact, exist. All we really want to know is that the helm is not unmanned. That the advocates of goodness and glory are still in control. That righteousness reigns. That perfection awaits. That the Atonement is real and available.

Women are like the police. They could have all the evidence in the world, but they still want the confession.

You hear it, too?" Walter asked. "Of course I do," she snapped. "It's real!

Besides, my confidence that every person can be cured of his or her false beliefs through evidence has meanwhile significantly diminished. Oh, Mr. Brecht, I often think, people can really see an apple fall to the ground an simultaneously believe it when someone claims: It isn't falling. And there it is still the matter of more obvious natural laws!

A ciò che si è detto e ripetuto spesso, alla fine si crede.

But who is being compelled? She herself? And to what end? To make her stay? --Let's put all the evasions behind us. No: the compulsion to make her stand and be recognized. Useless to pretend it's for her sake. Once and for all, she doesn't need us. So we should be certain of one thing: that it's for our sake. Because it seems we need her.

For we walk by faith, not by sight.

The Catholic Church does not offer certainty in human knowledge in the way that some ex-evangelicals seem to want to have it. So forget about that. Learn, have faith, seek understanding, and be prepared to give an account. Be forgiven and forgive. Be formed by the sacraments and practices of the Church, particularly the Eucharist, and learn Christian love for God and your neighbor. That's it.

It is arrogance to believe you can know all things. Perhaps you are right. But perhaps you are not.

You can only act on what you do know. What your heart and your head and your gut tell you is right.

I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable. I know what it means to lose everything, to let go of one life and find another. And now I feel, with a strange, deep certainty, that it must be my lot in life to be taught that lesson over and over again.

Each moment of loss, she has come to believe, contains within it the possibility of a new life. When the unimaginable happens, and your life changes irrevocably, you may find along with the pain a kind of grace. And in the place of certainty and fear—the fear of losing what you had—you are left with something startling: a depth of empathy, a quivering sensitivity to the world around you, and the unexpected blessing of gratitude for what remains.

I'd say ye can't know what code ye live by until it's tested.

Fairy tales end happily ever after because children crave certainly and resolution; they need to know how things turn out. But if my experiences in the past three months have shown me anything, it's that I am comfortable living with more questions than answers. My own story will always be a work in progress.

I think of the tattered picture tacked to my long-ago bulletin board, the man of my fantasies on Blueberry Cove Lane, the mirage of a perfect life that brought me to Maine in the first place. Fairy tales end happily ever after because children crave certainty and resolution; they need to know how things turn out. But if my experiences in the past three months have shown me anything, it's that I am comfortable living with more questions than answers.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Elaine said I could stop worrying about how my work was going to turn out.

La hambruna es el primer crimen de masas, y es muy difícil probarlo con certeza.

since 'nothing can be begun with certainty, it's better we begin with doubt'.

I have always been sure That when [the Day of Judgement] comes it will come in autumn. Heaven, I am quite sure, wouldn't disappoint The bulbs.