Quotes About Certainty

The man who does good in doubt must have so much more merit than one who does it in the bright certainty of belief. "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold..." A warning against the smugness of inherited faith.

You must be able to say, with reasonable certainty, "I understand," before you can say "I agree," or "I disagree," or "I suspend judgment.

A universe of doubt could never erase, The faith his heart has embraced. No

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

Why do you grieve so uselessly? Every uncertainty is the result of a certainty. There is nothing in this world really to be lamented.

After reading between the lines, I can secretly hear Socrates screaming: 'I'm the wisest man to ever live in the world. Anyone who will claim that title after me he's fake!

Doubt not only kills an idea, but destroys the whole foundation of thought within you.

God does not accept a challenge unless victory is already guaranteed.

Hesitation is a disease that cannot be praised.

Jesus himself complained that his apostles kept asking for more miracles or proofs, before they could fully believe him. They were full of doubts and he knew it.

Natural or not, the death of the body is certain and guaranteed to all.

No one knows the cure for addiction. In other words, certainty is a dream and the time to stop is unknown; even after feeling pain.

The aim of planning is to minimise, remove and cast aside all the doubts.

The definition of the word truth is that, you know what you know and what you don't know.

The truth is that even the devil himself believes in the existence of God.

We believe whenever we don't know the truth.

We have our reasons for doubting things in life, but many doubts are maintained for no reason.

What will you gain by knowing facts? —I would rather know the principles than facts. Because facts are changeable like the wind and can't be relied upon!

DoÄŸrular, her zaman insan?n ayaklar?n? aç?kta b?rakan bir battaniye gibidir.

In fact, like most things in life that really matter—love, beauty, justice—you can't prove things in history the way you can prove Pythagoras's theorem. But there are lots of things you can be certain of nonetheless.

believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Faith involves believing that certain things are true, of course. But (here's another caricature we have to put firmly to bed) this isn't about odd, detached dogmas. It's about certain things in the light of which everything else at last comes into focus.

This uncertainty in turn, of course, begets a new and anxious eagerness for certainty: hence the appeal of fundamentalism, which in today's world is not so much a return to a premodern worldview but precisely to one form of modernism (reading the Bible within the grid of a quasi-or pseudoscientific quest for "objective truth

If you want to know why the "new atheists" like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Atkins sell so many books, the answer is that they're offering the modernist version of the good old-fashioned theological term "assurance." They are assuring anxious ex-believers that the nightmare of small-minded and stultifying "religion" is gone