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Quotes About Certainty

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something. Only faith is sufficient.
~ Robert Ley
In order to hold your faith intact be sure it's kept unsullied by fact.
~ Donald E. Westlake
Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel. Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
~ Timothy Keller
It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""
~ Mark Twain
Faith is the path of least resistance.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.
~ Adrian Rogers
Keep feeding your faith until your doubts starves to death.
~ Navjot Singh Sidhu
Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.
~ Will Durant
When I cannot enjoy the faith of assurance, I live by the faith of adherence.
~ Matthew Henry
Faith is a mental attitude that is so convinced of its own idea - which so completely accepts it - that any contradiction is unthinkable and impossible.
~ Ernest Holmes
I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
~ Joseph Campbell
Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.
~ Joe Abercrombie, Red Country
Faith is the assurance that the best and holiest dream is true after all.
~ Frederick Buechner
Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.
~ Sam Harris
Faith is a total attitude of the self.
~ John MacQuarrie
Every human being is born without faith. Faith comes only through the process of making decisions to change before we can be sure it's the right move.
~ Unknown
Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.
~ Mason Cooley
Have faith in your faith-and doubt your doubts.
~ Robert H. Schuller
Faith can remove a mountain, but doubt can put it back in place again
~ Tage Danielsson
However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.
~ Salman Rushdie