Quotes About Certainty

Mi pecado se volvía más grave debido a los tiempos de crisis en que vivíamos. Cuantas más certezas nos robaba la guerra, más carecíamos de la seguridad de un pasado hecho de orden y obediencia.

The true statement 'Is is is' is a fact of reality.

We are forever, right?" Melissa Said. "Absolutely forever. There is nothing that could ever take me away from you," I said with more certainty than I'd said anything in my life.

There is no proof great enough to prevent doubt. Ir you base your belief on proof, sooner or later you will sink!

People who demand signs never believe them when they come.

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

From what I have seen of the world, Reverend, motherhood is a certainty, but fatherhood is a subject of debate.

He was a tree stump of a man, limited in his outlook but rooted and unshakeable in his certainties.

With a rage he mistook for certainty...

Sato, perhaps naively, believed

He will console you at certain times, but the greater work is to do His will in the darkness of faith. Faith is of utmost importance.

And yet. . . and yet, the ancient scar of Adam within his nature dragged him inexorably back, again and again, to this desire for certainty.

There's nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.

A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.

Of this his head was convinced, however doubtful his bowels.

Once I made a decision, I never thought about it again.

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Weerlegging is geen ramp, maar de voorwaarde tot de vooruitgang van de wetenschap. Als we dingen met onweerlegbare zekerheid aan de weet konden komen, was er geen wetenschap.

faith could only be stretched so far before people demanded an element of proof,

A certain kind of courage is required to follow what truly calls to us; why else would so many choose to live within false certainties and pretensions of security? If genuine treasures were easy to find this world would be a different place. If the path of dreams were easy to walk or predictable to follow many more would go that route. The truth is that most prefer the safer paths in life even if they know that their souls are called another way.

Certainty is eaten away by the thousand and one compromises that are the currency of democracy.

I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.

In essence, they predict that science, not religion, will guarantee us an afterlife.