Quotes About Certainty

Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.

But what do you believe? I don't just mean religion. What are you sure of?" "That once I was not and that now I am. That one day I shall no longer be.

Who knows most, doubts most.

What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!

I don't believe in atheists.

When one has a crisis of faith it means one is struck by the realisation than one has been pretending know things that one doesn't know.

Certainty is no guarantor of correctness.

Science deals in evidence and uncertainty. Religion deals in certainty without evidence.

God is by definition the holder of all possible knowledge, it would be impossible for him to have faith in anything. Faith, then, is built upon ignorance and hope.

If one has belief, knowledge is lacking. If one has knowledge, belief is unnecessary.

He has done things that caused me to doubt His wisdom, but never His existence.

But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.

If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing.

Reasons for declaring belief is not are not the same as reasons for believing in god.

God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of.

Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.

Faith is often the boast of the man who is too lazy to investigate.

Religion isn't yours firsthand until you doubt it right down to the ground.

It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they (world religions) disagree, not more than one of them can be true.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed.

A sure way to have someone crushed by their doubt is to preach a sermon on how to remove your doubt.

A firm belief atthracts facts. They come out iv holes in the ground an' cracks in th' wall to support belief but they run away fr'm doubt.

Faith means intense usually confident belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

Lifeboats are decked out on the sides of a ship waiting for when disaster strikes, faith on the other hand is a part of you for whenever.