Quotes About Certainty

I want to say to you: Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty.

Doubt requires more courage than conviction does, and more energy; because conviction is a resting place and doubt is infinite - it is a passionate exercise.

I still long for a shared certainty, an assumption of safety, the reassurance of believing that others know better than me what's for the best. But I have been led by the bitter necessities of an interesting life to value that age-old practice of the wise: Doubt.

though there is no question, as it turns out, that there can be a great deal of difference between belief and truth; yet, given a choice, either will do at two in the morning.

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He'd never gotten back to religion, but he had gotten back some faith.

That is the definition of faith, hermano, says Figueroa. Something that we believe in even though it doesn't work. Eres un cinicio. If it worked, it would be science.

I propose a toast. Here's to being right all the time. May God and history forgive us." They all clinked glasses to that.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical

He did not know, and perhaps this doctor did. And he could not take the chance of pitting his certain ignorance against this man's possible knowledge. He was trapped as his people were always trapped, and would be until, as he had said, they could be sure that the things in the books ere really in the books.

The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.

Sure I got sins. Ever'body got sins. A sin is somepin you ain't sure about. Them people that's sure about ever'thing an' ain't got no sin-- well, with that kind a son-of-a-bitch, if I was God I'd kick their ass right outa heaven! I couldn' stand 'em!

Part of the far shore disappeared into a shimmer that looked like water. There was no certainty in seeing, no proof that what you saw was there or was not there. And the people of the Gulf expected all places were that way, and it was not strange to them.

um homem tem de ter qualquer coisa a que se ligue, qualquer coisa que ele possa estar certo de encontrar lá de manhã.

and what is truth?

And he could not take the chance of putting his certain ignorance against this man's possible knowledge.

Three things will never be believed: the true, the probable, and the logical.

Can it be that we do not love to be reminded that we are very young and callow in a world that was old when we came into it? And could there be a strong resistance to the certainty that a living world will continue its stately way when we no longer inhabit it?

I know why I'm going—and, Tom, I know where I'm going, and I am content.

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.

Guarantee? We guaranteed it to be an automobile.

The one certainty in tiger tracks is: follow them long enough and you will eventually arrive at a tiger, unless the tiger arrives at you first.