Quotes About Certainty

Like all great theologies, Bill [O'Reilly]'s can be boiled down to one sentence: There must be a god, because I don't know how things work.

His eyes search the crowd until they find my face. My heartbeat lives in my throat; lives in my cheeks. "I still don't understand," he says softly, "how she knew that it would work.

There is a call to spiritual perseverance. A call not to hang on and do nothing, but to work deliberately, knowing with certainty that God will never be defeated.

For the Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work.

Everything is going to work out-there's no other option.

I didn't make 'The Sixth Sense' because I thought the ending wouldn't work!

I still doubt it will work." "You'd doubt the sun's rising if you weren't proven wrong each day," Raoden said with a smile.

I'm amazed when I think about students today. They know from day one what they are going to be. We didn't. We just coasted. We just knew that things would work out.

People are looking for certainty. The more complex the world becomes, the more people look for people to give them certainty and tell them what to do. During the past few years of actively thinking about this, there is one thing that I have accepted: certainty is not out there. There is not one strategy to follow, and that's OK.

I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can't present it as fact.

To me, a strong sense of self isn't believing in a lot.

I often will state things strongly if I think that it's important.

My instinct and gut guide me very strongly.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.

I'm completely optimistic - I know the end is coming!

I highly doubt that many people are as organized as me.

The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts.

I want, overall, to trust what I know is right. There have been many times when I haven't.

I'm not overconfident. It's just that I'm not caught up in that. What will be will be. The die is cast. I can't be anybody but me.

Being right is overrated! If someone is saying that they're right about the future, that's a claim only a fool would make.

An old Buddhist saying: BELIEVE nothing because it is said to be of divine origin. BELIEVE nothing because a wise man said it. BELIEVE nothing because its belief is generally held. BELIEVE nothing because it is written in ancient books. BELIEVE nothing because someone else believes it. BUT believe only what you yourself know to be true.