Quotes About Certainty

Sincerity is all that counts -- it's a widespread modern heresy. Think again. Bolsheviks are sincere. Fascists are sincere. Lunatics are sincere. People who believe the earth is flat are sincere. They can't all be right.

I count it as a certainty that in paradise, everyone naps.

Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt. That's why I love vegetables, you know what they're about!

Mark Twain said a century ago, "It's not what you don't know that gets you into trouble, it's what you know for sure that ain't so.

It's not what you don't know that gets you in trouble, it's what you know for sure that ain't so" Mark Twain

Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.

Certainty was essential to him and the written word had a certainty about it that everything else in life lacked.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

Faith is the quiet assurance that everything will be okay.

Experts are people who have the same opinions as other experts.

Well you say that it's gospel, But I know that it's only church.

A belief that doesn't require evidence is still only a belief.

Death is the ultimate test of ones faith.

Everybody who sets out to prove that God exists succeeds and everybody who sets out to prove that God does not exist also succeeds.

Just because you believe something is true doesn't automatically make it true.

The only faith that really matters is the one that you believe in.

As Bertrand Russell, the famous British mathematical philosopher and Nobel laureate, famously lamented in an essay condemning the rise of Nazi Germany, "the fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

I don't make mistakes. I make predictions which immediately turn out to be wrong.

The first rule in politics is that there are no rules, at least not in the sense of inevitable defeats or inevitable victories. If you have the right policy and the right strategy, you always have a chance of winning. Without them, you can lose no matter how certain the victory seems.

I only know what I believe.

His word was as reliable as a plumbers promise

When we allow our faith to be defined by our feelings, we will be confused. Faith must have an objective standard by which it is defined—truth. In fact, when faith operates by an objective standard of truth, it will eventually dictate our emotions rather than the reverse.

Faith is acting as if God is telling the truth. It is acting as if something is true even when it doesn't appear to be true in order that it might be shown to be true simply because God said it's true.

I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subject of maps I have always been a true believer. It is on the map, therefore it is, and I am.