Quotes About Certainty

Arguments about God are] like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.

What we have at the moment isn't as the old liturgies used to say, 'the sure and certain hope of the resurrection of the dead,' but a vague and fuzzy optimism that somehow things may work out in the end.

I'm an atheist. I wouldn't even call myself an agnostic. I am an atheist.

Hawke nodded. He trusted the alphas of the leopard and falcon packs on a gut level. Neither Lucas nor Adam would ever knife him in the back, of that both parts of him were dead certain.

despite what she said, she knew the

You know the great thing about Truman," he told Goodwin, "is that once he makes up his mind about something—anything, including the A bomb—he never looks back and asks 'should I have done it? Oh! Should I have done it?' No, he just knows he made up his mind as best he could and that's that. There's no going back. I wish I had some of that quality.

if you cannot identify the divine in any positive way, how do you even know it is real?

Simple feels safe. Certainty feels safe.

And more to the point, I was reasonably certain he wasn't going to try and devour my soul. My expectations for a husband had lowered.

History shows us clearly that science does not provide certainty. It does not provide proof. It only provides the consensus of experts, based on the organized accumulation and scrutiny of evidence.

Western scientists built an intellectual culture based on the premise that it was worse to fool oneself into believing in something that did not exist than not to believe in something that did.

All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before one single word — faith.

The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.

Confidence is a sense of certainty about your ability, which allows you to bypass conscious thought and execute unconsciously.

a sense of certainty about your ability, which allows you to bypass conscious thought and execute unconsciously.

a sense of certainty—that feeling of having complete faith . . . about your ability—that you can do something or that you know something . . . which allows you to bypass conscious thought—so well you don't have to think about it . . . and execute unconsciously—so you perform it automatically and instinctively.

The true well-being of the church: when she cannot count on anything anymore but God's promises. -Johannes Hoekendijk

Being a villain, it seems, provides a certain amount of indisputable clarity." -- Commander Invincible

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.

TOM … Go on, jump in there. (Prompts her.) Be brave. HELEN You're absolutely sure it's dead, right? Because if it's just holding its breath, then I'm … LaBute, Neil (2004-11-29). Fat Pig: A Play (p. 27). Faber & Faber. Kindle Edition.

Then again, no matter what your point of view may be, you can always find someone with a Ph.D to support it.

Truth, after all, does not ask for our permission or require our concurrence. It simply is. With or without us.

One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.