Quotes About Certainty

There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.

It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of action. For while in many matters it is first we must see then we will act; in matters of faith it is first we must do then we will know, first we will be and then we will see. One must, in short, dare to act wholeheartedly without absolute certainty.

The other often much prefers a clear answer, even if it is No, than continued indecision and waffling.

Cause one way or the other," I said, rolling a fat one, "it's all gonna work out." "And what makes you so goddamn sure?" I took a hit and held it in. When I exhaled, I said, slowly but deliberately, "It's a matter of faith, Waylon. And I got enough faith to last me this lifetime and whatever lifetimes come next.

One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still

It turns out I was right. But nothing has come of it.

Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.

Faith is stronger than so-called reality.

No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.

No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.

?üphen varsa, söyle gitsin!

If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?

To have nobody is to have not even yourself. Somebody loving you provides a certificate of existence. When a person feels alone, he can't exist without some small social fable.

If you need all the answers to trust God, you are not really trusting God.

When you say 'This is a bad thing that's happening,' how often are you wrong?

Blind faith is not a quality to be encouraged

For some time now she has had the conviction that life is about to change if only because it must. . . .

it seeks to 'fix' our understanding, but at the same time it reveals how any such fixity, and such desire for stability and certainty, is constructed on shifting sands.

Well-defined theological convictions did not admit contrary viewpoints, for even the consideration of alternate possibilities ran contrary to the notion of faith.

As for me, I prefer truth to goodthink. I feel surer on my ground.

he bought all the stocks and businesses he understood, knew for a long time, which he was dead certain were "super bargains.