Quotes About Certainty

It's hard to realize that you might be wrong when you think you're right—especially when your logic, analysis, emotions, experience, and preparation all point toward your conclusion. As Mark Twain said, "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Sometimes the easy way out is the right way in.

All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents.

HERE ARE THREE absolute truths: 1. The world is round. 2. We are all going to die. 3. No one enjoyed Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.

If it looks like a duck and quacks likes a duck, it's a duck, right?

In modern faith our certainty has replaced love. A healthy faith walk is a collision of both. Enough certainty and conviction to walk out life pursuing Christ and holiness—but enough love to draw others (even those who do not agree with our conviction) to Christ. Conviction without love is just an angry opinion.

I'd bet dollars to doughnuts

Sometimes you just have to have faith.

Faith clearly means 'to move forward without knowing.' But for the last 300 years at least it's meant 'to know every-thing with certainty.' How has a word come to mean the exact opposite of what is originally meant?

The serene confidence which a Christian feels in four aces.

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.

Unless I am very much mistaken...I AM very much mistaken...!

There's no in between-you're either good or bad. We were in between.

"Not sure," he retorted; "you call yourself a journalist, and admit there is a subject under Heaven of which you are not sure!"

There is a strength of conviction that can only come from being 100% wrong.

How do you know?""Well, I don't, I'm making this up, but I bet I'm right.

Climate change is like my head: it's not visible in every instance, but I'm pretty darn sure it's there.

The past is certain, the future obscure.

How often has Hitler said to me: 'I know that my decision or action is correct. I cannot explain at the moment why, but I feel that it is right and the future will prove it so'.

It's not wether you were right or wrong, but how much faith you were willing to have - that decides the future.

The future is deterministic in principle, but not in practice.

Replace what you don't know about the future with what you do know about God!

Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene.