Quotes About Certainty

If our faith rests on God's veracity, it has an absolute and eternally unshakable foundation. If it rests on our own mind, it is as secure as sand. Does your faith look like a castle or a sand castle?

The only honest reason for anyone ever to believe anything is that it is true, that it is really there.

Doesn't certainty about a universal negative require omniscience? Don't you have to have knowledge of everywhere to know that there is no X anywhere?

If anyone doubts its infallible conclusion, he infallibly shows that he has never really performed the experiment.

You can be just as certain that God will give you little pieces of Heaven, little appetizers for Heaven, for the rest of your life on earth as you can be certain that He will give you the fullness of Heaven when you die.

Hence the fact that some happen to doubt about articles of faith is not due to the uncertain nature of the truths, but to the weakness of human intelligence;

Pure truth is possible, but pure falsehood is not.

these relativists turn out to be not relativistic at all about one thing: their relativism. That's their one nonnegotiable absolute.

As I said, relativism says there are no absolutes. Absolutely no absolutes.

We must distinguish the act of faith from the object of faith, believing from what is believed.

In the first sense, probability means the degree of belief or approvability of an opinion—the gut view of probability. Scholars use the term "epistemological" to convey this meaning; epistemological refers to the limits of human knowledge not fully analyzable.

The fanatic is certain that he is right.

But hadn't she heard that for someone who's made up their mind, everything becomes so much lighter? It made sense, in a way. Like suddenly nothing costs you anything anymore?

A faith that can only exist in the light of victory and certainty is one which really affirms the self while pretending to affirm Christ, for it only follows Jesus in the belief that Jesus has conquered death. Yet a faith that can look at the horror of the cross and still say 'yes' is one that says 'no' to the self in saying 'yes' to Christ.

It is wise to take admissions of uncertainty seriously," Daniel Kahneman noted, "but declarations of high confidence mainly tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his mind, not necessarily that the story is true.

Mors certa, vita incerta

We must content ourselves with the mystery, the absurdity, the contradictions, the hostility, but also the generosity that our environment offers us. It's not much, but it's always better than the deadly, defeatist certainty of the paranoid.

Nothing is true

Mors certa, vita incerta, as Mr. Sloat occasionally declared. Isidore, although he had heard the expression a number of times, retained only a dim notion as to its meaning. After all, if a chickenhead could fathom Latin he would cease to be a chickenhead.

He should have that chilled but somehow enthusiastic look, as if he believed in nothing and yet somehow had absolute faith.

A realidade é aquilo que não desaparece, quando se deixa de crer nisso.

Realidade é aquela coisa que não desaparece quando você deixa de acreditar nela.

You discover I'm right," the door said. It sounded smug.

manifestations of paranoia. We must content ourselves with the mystery, the absurdity, the contradictions, the hostility, but also the generosity that our environment offers us. It's not much, but it's always better than the deadly, defeatist certainty of the paranoid.