Quotes About Certainty

Happiness is a perceptual reality, not an absolute certainty.

Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.

How does a whale know when to swim to warmer waters for winter? How do the fish know whe a predator is near? How do you know when love is real? You just know.

There was something very healing about being with someone you trusted absolutely--even if you couldn't share a future and you both knew it.

He was so certain it was the right thing to do. And we all know, don't we, gentlemen, of the deadliness of righteous men?

Certainty is the place where questions go to die.

Knowledge is never in doubt. Wisdom is never certain.

This means that the search for security and certainty is actually an attachment to the known. And what's the known? The known is our past. The known is nothing other than the prison of past conditioning. There's no evolution in that — absolutely none at all. And when there is no evolution, there is stagnation, entropy, disorder, and decay. Uncertainty, on the other hand, is the fertile ground of pure creativity and freedom

When we find our core certainty within, then we no longer look for certainty outside. The unfathomable nature of the ever-changing world ceases to be a source of anxiety and instead is a source of joy and adventure.

By itself, faith can't deliver God, but it does

The people who actually combat the world's injustice are not consumed by anger. They are clear-headed, self-possessed, and certain as to where their values lie.

Replace risk with certainty. You have no worries about losing control if you aren't threatened. Once you are certain about yourself, external threats don't exist anymore, because threat is the same as fear, and knowing who you are is a fearless state. Who you are is the true self. Expanded awareness takes you closer to this true self; therefore, fear decreases. When that happens, the issue of control lessens. In its place you experience a state of increased freedom.

Reality isn't fragile. If you doubt a rose, it doesn't wither and die.

Humans are in the ironic position of knowing for certain that we have a mind, while at the same time finding that our mind can't explain itself.

The believer is neither a pessimist nor an optimist. To be either is illusory. The believer sees reality not in a certain light but as it is, and believes only in God and God's power towards all and over all that is seen. (in No Rusty Swords)

Based on the law of probability, everything is possible because the sheer existence of possibility confirms the existence of impossibility.

His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time.

To the knights of faith nobody believes.

The fact speak for themselves.

It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley; but not at all so to believe or not in God.

Denis Lacorne

When I can't trust others and I can't trust myself, I can always trust God.

Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.