Quotes About Certainty

If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosingn immobility as a means of transportation.

Now he realized that this matter of faith was either radically to be taken seriously or radically not to be taken seriously.

It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while......But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Until it knows its rank for certain, the animal lives a life of unbearable anarchy.

I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality.

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

Always be sure to never speak in absolutes.

Just because you've said it..doesn't make it true

The best way to kill a good thing is question it to death.

The only certain barrier to truth is the presumption that you already have it.

By doubting we come at truth.

He keeps this up, he's bound to be caught, she thought. And this time they'll dangle him for certain.

Aku telah melakukan kesalahan dalam hidupku. Di masa silam aku telah mengakuinya dan pengakuan itu menimbulkan kekuatan. Tetapi keberanian dari seseorang terletak pada keyakinannya bahwa dia telah bertindak benar. Aku tidak akan hidup, jika tidak yakin dengan kuat dan pasti, bahwa apa yang kukerjakan waktu itu adalah benar. Kalau tidak begitu aku merupakan orang yang lemah.

I am only certain of one thing. If we are the sum total of our relationships, my balance sheet is bleeding red ink.

In one way or another everything communicates. Human are the only creatures on earth, with the exception of cats, that are certain of the absolute critical nature of the message they try to convey. I have found that the only difference between the two is that cats are correct, while humans...eh...not so much. Ninety-nine point nine percent of the time we are just making stuff up. And some of us have elevated it to a seriously messed up art form.

But can someone tell you you're in love? Or do you just have to know it at a gut level? And if you can't identify it, does it even really exist?

There are no 'ifs' in combat. When you win, you win, When you lose, you lose.

The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means.

It's not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.

And - and don't forget that the structure of the atom cannot be seen but it nonetheless known. I know about lots of things I've never seen. And so do you. You can't show proof of the truest thing of all, all you can do is believe. Weep and believe.