Quotes About Certainty

This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?"

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

Je ne crois pas une demi-seconde aux déclarations du genre rien ne sera plus jamais comme avant. Au contraire, tout restera exactement pareil... Il serait tout aussi faux d'affirmer que nous avons redécouvert le tragique, la mort, la finitude, etc..

un mundo de kids definitivos.

Al considerar los acontecimientos presentes de nuestra vida, oscilamos constantemente entre la fe en el azar y la evidencia del determinismo. Sin embargo, cuando se trata del pasado, no tenemos la menor duda: nos parece obvio que todo ha ocurrido del modo en que, efectivamente, tenía que ocurrir

I was thinking that maybe when everything around you changed all the time, it was nice to know that something would always be the same.

I didn't blame Curtis for coming to what was nominally a Protestant church and expecting to hear about the Bible. I'd also had to adjust to the AUUCC's staunch secularism. Having been drawn there to grieve my mother, I would have loved some divine reassurance, but during my very first visit Sparlo said, "There are no answers, only the eternal questions," and I remember thinking, Damn, one more time, nobody's offering any certainty.

He knew for certain that she belonged forever in his arms, just as he knew she didn't realize it yet.

Most of the time he was simply Wolf: clever, inquisitive, and fiercely loyal. Sometimes he was the guide, with mysterious certainty in his amber eyes. Always he was a pack-brother.

Maybe there was symmetry everywhere, and the patterns of our days held no less certainty than the mathematical patterns of the universe. Maybe, in order to see the patterns, one simply needed to take a few steps back, turn the page upside down, approach everything from a different angle.

the only thing we got to stand on is what He promised.

If you can be talked into something, you can be talked out of it. But when you experience something for yourself, you can't deny that. It becomes your undisputed truth, and no one can convince you otherwise.

There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt.

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

What a man has, so much he's sure of.

What a man has, so much he is sure of.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. -Miguel de Unamuno, philosopher and writer (1864-1936)

Y pensar es dudar y nada más que dudar. Se cree, se sabe, se imagina sin dudar; ni la fe, ni el conocimiento, ni la imaginación suponen duda y hasta la duda las destruye, pero no se piensa sin dudar. Y es la duda lo que de la fe y del conocimiento, que son algo estático, quieto, muerto, hace pensamiento, que es dinámico, inquieto, vivo.

Life is doubt, And faith without doubt is nothing but death.

That's the problem with our perspective; we always assume we're right based on the information we have.

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous." —Chinese proverb

It doesn't do you any good to pray in question marks.