Quotes About Certainty

Of this he was certain: to be in her presence was to know delight in a more vivid sense than ever he had before.

I...I've never met a man like you." He chuckled, a broad grin on his face. "Of that, my lady, I'm certain.

You should take faith as lead first then trust will followed

Groupthink stifles the possibility of suspending one's assumptions. In fact, its whole purpose is to elevate and protect those assumptions from any assault by logic. Creative and synergistic communication is doomed within groups infected with the symptoms of groupthink. Any new or unusual notions quickly fall victim to the group's terminal sense of certainty.

If I could explain a head in a barrel to the King, he thought, I can explain a man in a tanpit to a Bishop. But I'd sooner be more certain of the facts.

You need not laugh; 'tis perfectly true.

Then you will have to trust me. Beyond logic, beyond reason, beyond hope, trust me.

Some truths are truths, no matter who says them.

Love," he said, "is always a risk, isn't it? I've always thought that there were no certainties in life, but I was wrong. Love is a certainty. And love always gives more than it takes.

I borrowed a hammer and the garage and disposed of both phones. I was pretty sure that I could have just pulled the batteries, but pretty sure wasn't good enough, so I used a hammer.

It's a hard thing to risk what you know and are sure of, just for the possibility of something better. Even when it's a pretty strong possibility, and something that's a whole lot better.

I most certainly can deny it. Of course, if I did, I'd be lying." Mairelon

He pushed his glasses up on his nose and gave me a sidelong look, the one that meant he was so sure you were wrong that he could just wait and let you find out for yourself the hard way.

It must he him.

Faith in our time can seem like signing on the dotted line of a prefab doctrine composed of absurdities.

And she did not have to ask if this was right, no one had to tell her, because this could not have been more right or perfect.

Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure. It is perception without touch. It is understanding without research. It is certainty without proof. It is ability without practice. It is invention without limitations. It is imagination without boundaries. It is creativity without constraints. It is...extraordinary intelligence!

I may long for certainty, but I have to live with doing the best I can.

Certainty about one's moral stance might be soothing, but it tends to blinker us to damage we are about to cause.

Martin Luther confidently claimed that the Holy Spirit writes the moral truths on our conscience. Free of all misgivings, Luther claimed that the assertions of the Holy Spirit "are more sure and certain than life itself and all experience." 9 Realism intervenes: different devout hearts often deliver opposite moral assertions.

Believe only when you grasp the consequences of your belief.

Despair is for people who know, beyond any doubt, what the future is going to bring. Nobody is in that position. So despair is not only a kind of sin, theologically, but also a simple mistake, because nobody actually knows. In that sense there is always hope.

When I say I know something, I'm right 95% of the time; when I say I DON'T know something, I'm right 100% of the time!

Faith with proof is no faith at all.