Quotes About Certainty

Even if you totally believe in something, there's always an element of doubt.

Never, ever, ever, act on assumptions. Search out the facts and act on those.

the one certain thing in life is that no one can make the truth untrue simply because it hurts.

May your wonder always exceed your certainty.

What humans want most of all, is to be right. Even if we're being right about our own doom. If we believe there are monsters around the next corner ready to tear us apart, we would literally prefer to be right about the monsters, than to be shown to be wrong in the eyes of others and made to look foolish.

Some would have doubted their sanity at this point, but by now the part of my mind that issued doubts about my sanity had melted from overuse.

So you see, fear is just another manifestation of insecurity. What humans want most of all, is to be right. Even if we're being right about our own doom. If we believe there are monsters around the next corner ready to tear us apart, we would literally prefer to be right about the monsters, than to be shown to be wrong in the eyes of others and made to look foolish.

And I'm not crazy. I mean, I know anybody can say that. But a crazy person can't fake sane, right?

Be always sure you are right, then go ahead.

Be sure you're right-then go ahead.

atheists are the most faithful people I ever met

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides," Henri Frédéric Amiel

Now I was more certain than ever of my decision. I could not love a man who did not love Jane Austen.

it all fell into place and I simply knew, as one knows that fire is hot and sleep is sweet. It was just that sudden, that elemental, and it occurred to me then that the truth is precisely that--elemental. It is the essence of itself; it cannot be argued or winnowed down to something less than what it is.

It's strange, isn't it, how the idea of belonging to someone can sound so great? It can be comforting, the way it makes things decided. We like the thought of being held, until it's too tight. We like that certainty, until it means there's no way out. And we like being his, until we realize we're not ours anymore.

Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing.

I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.

He's good, all right," Mom said. "But I guess there's something else. About being sure. Sure about anything. Right comes with right timing.

Usually, I set one foot in a library and I feel my own internal volume lower. A library is a physical equivalent of a sigh. It's the silence, sure, but it's also the certainty of all those books, the way they stand side by side with their still, calm conviction. It's the reassurance of knowledge in the face of confusion.

You can trust your gut instinct. Always.

When facts give way to faith, then and only then have you unlocked the possibilities within!

Turbulence means nothing if God is the pilot.

You will never follow your own inner voice until you clear up the doubts in your mind.