Quotes About Certainty

Doubt frees us from illusions of having captured God in a creed; it calls into question every religious symbol.

The result only reinforced Hitler's self-belief that he was a 'man of destiny', treading his path 'with the certainty of a sleepwalker'.

All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them.

And we can't take absence of evidence as evidence of absence.

The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.

What can you do with a person who says that he is absolutely uncertain about everything, and that he is absolutely certain about that?

When the human being says: 'It is not true...' He may mean: 'I don't know about it, so I think it is untrue.' Or: 'I don't like it.

When you are still fragmentated, lacking certainty — what difference does it make what your decisions are?

None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

Conviction, far from being based upon reason, is the enemy of reason; because rationality does not change, while convictions do, all the time.

None should say: 'I can trust,' or 'I cannot trust' until he is master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

Debating whether one trusts or not is a sign that one does not want to trust at all, and therefore is still incapable of it.

Si supones que está allí, por lo general no estarás lejos de la verdad

If I knew what two and two were – I would say Four!

Me llamas descreído (...) te llamaré verdadero creyente, pues el mejor contrapunto de una mentira es otra de igual magnitud.

Si supiera cuánto es dos más dos, ¡diría que cuatro!

Ideologies exist only where there is no absolute knowledge. If you know something, you do not have to believe or disbelieve it....

If you forsake a path, it is because you were hoping for conviction from it. You seek conviction, not self-knowledge.

Si renuncias a un sendero, es porque estabas esperando convicción de él. Buscas convicción, no autoconocimiento.

If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth…

Cuando aún estás fragmentado, carente de certezas: ¿qué importa la índole de tus decisiones?

Unbelief itself is a religion with its own form of belief.

Las ideologías existen únicamente donde no hay conocimiento absoluto. Si sabes algo, no tienes que creerlo o dejar de creerlo…

Quien que no ha visto el rostro de la confianza, no ha visto nada. Quien que no ha encontrado la complacencia, no ha encontrado nada.