Quotes About Certainty

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

I cannot fear to be wrong because I never think I'm wrong until I am proven wrong. In fact, I am uncomfortable unless I am capitalizing my experience.

Doubt is merely a thought. When experience proves it wrong, it will quickly go away.

But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not terminate in an actual experience.

If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.

When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us.

In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.

If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.

His thoughts flicked between the confidence of the Anyala Stone, the expectations of his world, and, the certainty of his failure.

I am not moved by what I see. I am moved only by what I believe.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Feed your faith and starve your doubts.

For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.

Faith does not increase, nor does it decrease; because a diminution in it would be unbelief.

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.

Faith is acting in the face of contrary evidence. The senses declare, "It cannot be," but Faith shouts above the turmoil, "It is!"

Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts.

If you have worry, you don't have faith, and if you have faith, you don't have worry.

Faith is a response to evidence, not a rejoicing in the absence of evidence.

If you are going to live by faith, then expect your faith to be tested. A faith that can't be tested can't be trusted.

When we feed our faith, we starve our doubts.

Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

I will walk by faith, even when I cannot see.