Quotes About Certainty

I don't believe in belief.

The problem with proving something is that instead of leaving you alone people never stop giving you new things to prove, harder things.

We don't own truth. Truth is truth and nothing you can do about it even if you hide it, or kill it, or even tell it. It was truth before you open your mouth and say, That there is a true thing.

truth is truth and nothing you can do about it even if you hide it or kill it or even tell it. It was truth before you open your mouth and say, that there is a true thing

Ain't lost unless yus don't know where yus are," Jim grumbled. "I know'd where we are, it's jest that no one else does.

Nothing that isn't supposed to will ever be

the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions

que se te muera un hijo es alegría. Y creo —ahora, sin más dudas, creo— que todo lo que pueda decir sobre la esclavitud es redundante.

Emma, I want to tell you something about being right: being right is much harder on a person than being wrong.

white boys] were so sure, so unbelievably sure that the way they understood the world was the way the world was.

an absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Gurathin turned to him, impatient. "The log confirms it because that's what the Unit believes happened." Bharadwaj sighed. "Yet here I sit, alive.

It's not aliens, 2.0 said. I knew it wasn't aliens, I told it. It countered, We were seventy-two percent sure if wasn't aliens.

But then an absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

I don't make threats, I'm just telling you what I'm going to do.

You don't need proof. You need faith.

Lots of people believe in God. But trusting Him . . . that is the next step.

Anything is possible where faith is concerned.

I do not rest on the broad upland of a system that includes a series of sure statements about the absolutes, but on a narrow, rocky ridge between the gulfs where there is no sureness of expressible knowledge but [only] the certainty of meeting what remains, undisclosed.

truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.

A parallel imperative cause for accepting the message was the Messenger himself, a man who was, they were certain, too full of truth to deceive and too full of wisdom to be self-deceived.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.