Quotes About Certainty

But even the facts do not always tell the truth.

There was this certainty inside me, and it destroyed everything else. The moment Ferdinand touched me, I knew that I was going to kill him, and the certainty was so great, so overpowering, that I almost wanted to stop and tell him about it, just so he would be able to understand what I thought of him and why he deserved to be dead.

es imposible que los dos estén en lo cierto. Sí es posible, en cambio, que los dos estén en un error

Most people would be full of questions," said the youth. "It's the nature of innocence to question, the nature of duty to accept." "And it's the nature of age to be too sure of itself.

I can stand up for hope, faith, love But while I'm getting over certainty Stop helping God across the road Like a little old lady

If your hope disappoints you, it is the wrong kind of hope. You see, hope in God never disappoints, precisely because it is hope *in God.* This means that hope placed in any other thing will always end up disappointing.

Because doubt drives us to know and understand, it has the power to lead you to the One who knows and understands everything. Your capacity to doubt can drive you to God, but not always. This is why we need to talk about doubt, because this God-given capacity, wrongly functioning, can be disastrous.

Hope for the believer is not a dream of what could be, but a confident expectation of a guaranteed result that shapes his life.

if your faith is based on your ability to fully understand your past, present, and future, then your moments of confusion will become moments of weakening faith.

hope is nothing less than a confident expectation of a guaranteed result.

You can't see Canada across lake Erie, but you know it's there. It's the same with spring. You have to have faith, especially in Cleveland.

When in doubt ? any kind of doubt ? wash!

The certainty's is gone, as you say. But that's exactly what you just said distinguishes our age from theirs. We can't go back, or pretend we are back. We have to go on from where we are. In doubt.

The certainty's gone, as you say. But that's exactly what you just said distinguishes our age from theirs. We can't go back, or pretend we are back. We have to go on from where we are. In doubt.

One thing that's certain about the future: it will have more history than the present.

A leader knows it's not so hard to die for your people. It's hard to order your people to die for you. And leading with certainty in an uncertain future doesn't require sight. It requires vision. It requires holding on. And no matter what happens, never letting go.

He had no idea whether his facts were right, but he suspected that the Doctor was often in the same position.

A wise man states as true nothing he cannot prove

I like racing but food and pictures are more thrilling. I can't give them up. In racing you can be certain, to the last thousandth of a second, that someone is the best, but with a film or a recipe, there is no way of knowing how all the ingredients will work out in the end. The best can turn out to be awful and the worst can be fantastic. Cooking is like performing and performing like cooking.

The heroine might be unsure. And the reader. But I don't think the author should be.

My compulsive thoughts aren't even thoughts, they're absolute certainties and obeying them isn't a choice.

Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.

People want to give up the responsibility of being able to understand and because they can't understand then they have faith, and they put their faith in other people who say they can understand.

El propio Spinoza no tuvo ninguna duda sobre la verdad y la certeza de su pensamiento: «No pretendo haber encontrado la mejor filosofía, pero sí sé que pienso la verdadera. Si se me pregunta cómo lo sé, respondo que de la misma manera que se conoce que los tres ángulos de un triángulo suman dos ángulos rectos».