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Quotes About Certainty

Indeed, the human mind appeared to suffer from a crippling need to fabricate in the absence of concrete proof.
~ J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.
~ Richard Dawkins
I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.
~ Philip Yancey
Faith is believing that the outcome will be what it should be, no matter what it is.
~ Colette Baron-Reid
A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.
~ Bret Harte
We cannot stand through the storms of life based on someone else's faith. We must be fully assured in our own hearts and minds.
~ Joyce Meyer
Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .
~ Eileen Caddy
If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong.
~ Jack Kerouac
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
~ Voltaire
The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct
~ Confucius
There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.
~ Scotty Bowman
For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?
~ Saint Augustine
Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.
~ William Arthur Ward
Faith goes beyond reason. It goes beyond what you can see. But it is as real as anything you can touch or feel.
~ Henry Cloud
Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
~ Paulo Coelho, Brida
Indeed, the opposite of joy is not sorrow. The opposite of joy is unbelief.
~ Leslie Weatherhead
We are most often in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused.
~ M. Scott Peck
Faith is accepting what makes no sense, what we cannot prove, but know down deep in our souls is real.
~ Megan McCafferty, Bumped
People would rather believe than know.
~ Edward O. Wilson
If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.
~ John Calvin
Confidence comes from being prepared.
~ John Wooden
I don't like to gamble, but if there's one thing I'm willing to bet on, it's myself.
~ Beyonce Knowles
I do not believe in miracles, I rely on them.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi