Quotes About Certainty

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All cats were divine till proven otherwise; all dogs were suspect until cleared.

To feel a thing intensely, and then rest confidently that it is, makes the thing felt appear within your world.

Stand upon your tower and watch to see what God will say and how you will answer. Do this by assuming you are the person you want to be and seeing what you would see if your assumption was real. Remain there until you feel its certainty, until you reach the point of satisfaction, until you are convinced of its truth; and although the world may collapse around you, you will become that which you have assumed you are.

Faith does not question — Faith knows.

As you walk through the interval of Thursday, Friday and Saturday, nothing disturbs you regardless of conditions, because you predetermined that which you would be on the Sabbath and that remains an unalterable conviction.

El cielo sabe que lo que parece un absurdo, mañana puede ser una verdad demostrada".

In the midst of all the doubts and changing opinions of others, let there be a conviction, a firmness of belief, and you shall see the dry land; your belief will appear. The reward is to him that endureth unto the end. A conviction is not a conviction if it can be shaken. Your desire will be as clouds without rain unless you believe.

We all have to find a story to live by and live inside, or we couldn't endure the certainty of suffering.

It's a blindness thing, faith.

La mente umana, anche una mente minuscola, aborrisce l'ambiguità

Convénzanse que no hay dios.

Spune nu doar acela care îl ?tie pe da. Îns? el, care ?tie totul, la nu ?i da are foile rupte.

the new order promised stability, where for years there had been only chaos.

The more overtly unshakeable someone's beliefs are, the more diminished they seem to become, because they have stopped questioning, and the not-questioning can sometimes be accompanied by an attitude of moral superiority. The belligerent dogmatism of the current cultural moment is a case in point. A bit of humility wouldn't go astray.

Mother and daughter were both so rarely wrong they thought they could never be.

Relativism is the solution of one who is incapable of putting things in order.

Truths are not relative. What is relative are opinions about truth.

At times truth may not seem probable.

Le vrai peut quelquefois n'être pas vraisemblable. (At times truth may not seem probable)

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

As a "Rule of Thumb", Psychologists use 95% certainty as being acceptable. They allow a 5% chance of being wrong. If possible, they prefer 99% certainty, i.e. only 1% chance of being wrong. This is why Psychological research is usually expressed statistically….