Quotes About Certainty

That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.

Before you turn 40 you think, 'everyone else is going to die, but not me,' then you realize death is certain for everyone.

Once I make a decision, it's hard for me to listen to anybody else's opinion. I make a choice, and I'm like, 'This is it. I've thought long and hard about this, and this is exactly what needs to happen.'

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

I don't believe you can say 'forever'; I don't believe it exists.

Faith requires a leap; otherwise, it just becomes science.

My legacy is always going to be fine.

I do believe that I will see the apocalypse in my lifetime. And when it comes, I'm not repenting for anything I've done.

I spent a long time in London on the stage, and you knew exactly what you were going to be doing. You not only knew the performance, but you also knew exactly where you would stand.

Once you've achieved success, and you're making decisions that are working, I don't understand why anyone would be second-guessing themselves.

I don't have any question marks about my health or my body.

Everyone always has to have the rational, scientific explanation for something, even if it's so obviously wrong you could scream.

Belief made no difference to the truth.

Belief as such always has doubt at the bottom. It's knowing that makes wizardry work. Only knowing can banish doubt.

What should we think of someone who never admits error, never entertains doubt but adheres unflinchingly to the same ideas all his life, regardless of new evidence? Doubt and skepticism are signs of rationality. When we are too certain of our opinions, we run the risk of ignoring any evidence that conflicts with our views. It is doubt that shows we are still thinking, still willing to reexamine hardened beliefs when confronted with new facts and new evidence.

Reading had never let me down before. It had always been the one sure thing.

She had been able to bear not knowing a thing when she could be sure that God knew, but now...

Our real opinion is not one in which we have never wavered, but the one to which we have most regularly returned.

The nonbelievers need the believers. They are desperate to have someone believe. As belief shrinks from the world, people find it more necessary than ever that someone believe... Those who have abandoned belief must still believe in us. They are sure that they are right not to believe but they know belief must not fade completely. Hell is when no one believes.

And I knew with total certainty that a protection factor of fifteen was the highest level of sunblock scientifically possible. Now they were selling me a thirty.

You don't believe in heaven? A nun?' 'If you don't, why should I?' 'If you did, maybe I would.' 'If I did, you would not have to.

You are sure that you are right but you don't want everyone to think as you do. There is no truth without fools.

The son of a bitch believes.

Sooner or later you just figure out there are some guys who don't believe in God and they can prove He doesn't exist, and some other guys who do believe in God and they can prove He does exist, and the argument stopped being about God a long time ago and now it's about who is smarter, and honestly I don't care. I don't believe I will ever walk away from God for intellectual reasons. Who knows anything anyway?