Quotes About Certainty

I think if you are sure of your shots, you should back them.

I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.

You are as safe with me as you would be in the Bank of England.

You can't second-guess baseball. You can't second-guess yourself.

That which is cannot be true.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

I have no beliefs of a religious kind.

We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.

The less you know, the more you believe.

I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.

I've always sort of believed that the future takes care of itself.

Every album I've ever been involved in, on the day that it came out I believed in it.

He who knows all things and believes nothing is damned.

No matter what anybody says or thinks, nobody believes that I'm not the number one welterweight in Strikeforce. I think that's not even a question.

It's not whether I believe in God, but it's whether He believes in me.

That's always been really funny to me - someone who really stridently believes that they're right when they're so wrong in, like, the worst way. Not only do they believe that they're right, but they believe that everyone thinks that they're right, and are comfortable with that.

Believing that there is no God does not mean that there isn't one.

Sometimes I doubt, and sometimes I believe. I like not making myself believe when I am doubting and not making myself doubt when I am believing.

I'm never going to live in a state of doubt - that I don't belong here, that I'm not supposed to be here.

I'm very confident on where I stand in the league and where I belong.

Faith is the very antithesis of reason

According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all.

For the thoughtful believer, then, there is nothing more certain than the reality of uncertainty, nothing more natural than doubt, which is perhaps thirty seconds younger than faith itself (And even that approximation may be giving faith too much of a headstart).

It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.