Quotes About Certainty

We feel secure with things we can see or touch.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain whether of our worth or worthlessness we are almost impervious to fear.

One of the worst feeling in the world is having to doubt something you thought was unquestionable.

Don't build a bridge if you want to use the pillars of doubt and suspicion.

The human doesnt need mental effort or even a brain to have faith. It is not an emotion. Faith is a natural state of every living being.

Faith speaks louder in Action than in Words, Doubt speaks louder in words than in action.

Life is a journey, there is no certainty of how it will end but you can control the direction by the choices you make.

Change is the certainty of life and uncertainty is the reality of life.

The first thing assured by beginning is the end.

If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity...

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

You shouldn't believe everything. What you see isn't always right. Is what you think truly right? Please, think about it again. A heart that obediently accepts things is fine, but shouldn't you question something just once? The truth is in a place you can't see.

Nothing is completely wrong in this world even the clock which has stopped working is correct twice a day.

Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.

Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.

Why is it that if someone tells you that there are one billion stars in the universe, you will believe them, but if they tell you that a wall has wet paint, you will have to touch it to be sure?

If explanations are needed, then what's the meaning of trust?

Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do not destroy them; they may inflict on them the most constant refutations without weakening them, and an avalanche of afflictions or ailment succeeding one another without interruption in a family will not make it doubt the goodness of its God or the talent of its doctor.

A imobilidade das coisas que nos cercam talvez lhes seja imposta por nossa certeza de que essas coisas são elas mesmas e não outras, pela imobilidade de nosso pensamento perante elas.

Perhaps the immobility of the things around us is imposed on them by our certainty that they are themselves and not others, by the immobility of our mind confronting them.

The satisfaction a brainless fool gets out of being in the right and out of the certainty of success, is particularly irritating.

What arrogance made us think we were far enough to be safe?

I had always believed that right was like north to my father: a thing as real as sunlight, a place on the map, the arrow on a compass.