Quotes About Certainty

Even though you may not understand how God works, you know he does.

The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.

To the believer, truths are a settled thing, a fact; to the freethinker, a thing that is still to be settled.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

Ne meni, ne više, ništa mi se ne bi moglo desiti ma šta da se desi, siguran sam u to. Jedan dio mog života se završio, a drugi još nije po?eo.

Ali mi se, ipak, nadamo boljemu, uvijek, više vjerujemo svojoj želji nego svome strahu, i obi?no s pravom

The only thing I knew for certain was that all around me was more life than I'd ever experienced in all the years I'd been on earth and as long as no one shut me in the barn away from Edmond at night I was safe.

Can I trust you, Addy?" he asks. I say he can. Does anyone ever answer that question with a no?

I've never been a big believer in formal education.

Faith is accepting what makes no sense, what we cannot prove, but know down deep in our souls is real.

What I envy most about you and everyone else heading back to school is the certainty of it all. You've got a prescribed set of requirements to guide you through the next few years. Focus your energy on the completion of those assignments and you'll succeed. Guaranteed. Where's my syllabus to guide me through life?

Master Chuang Tzu says the spring insect knows nothing of the winter! We can also say suspicion knows nothing of the peace of mind!

No man is disbeliever! Everyone is believer! All men believe in something! If a man does not believe in God, He is a believer too, because he simply believes that God does not exist! Don't give yourself airs just because you believe in something since everyman believes in something! Always be humble!

Only the dull don't doubt!

Sometimes it is not wise to make a second plan; it diminishes the power of the first plan! In risky paths, make only one plan; this will increase the possibility of success! On the edge of a precipice, if your second plan is a parachute on your back, your possibility of falling will increase! When you have nothing to trust, you will be safer, because you have no right to make any mistake!

You can't create an ocean with a single drop. But you can create an ocean of suspicion with a single drop of doubt.

For however devoted you are to him, you may be sure that he is immeasurably more devoted to you and has incomparably more faith in you. For he is faithfulness itself – of this we can be certain as those who love him are certain.

I am going to hell. Not passing go. Just straight to hell.

So often, we think we can guess our destiny. We're so certain we know what it looks like that we forget to open ourselves up to the pleasure of surprise.

but it's not always as set as that. Some things, though, feel like they're right. You and me? It's one of those things. I don't know why they see or why things are such a mess, but in the middle of it all, I do know that being around you is one of tue best things that happened to me in, well, ever.

a person can't un-know the truth.

no statistical prediction can or will ever be 100 percent accurate—because human beings are not and never will be statistics.

a cidade não é um lugar. É a moldura de uma vida, um chão para a memória. Enrolei a linha, e regressei a casa, o poente avermelhando a paisagem e os flamingos trazendo o céu para junto da terra. Então, ganhei certeza: a cidade em que nasci estava destinada a nascer de mim.

Na vida só a morte é exacta. O resto balança nas duas margens da dúvida.