Quotes About Certainty

If you remain fearfully convinced that you have a physical ailment, even when there is a consensus to the contrary among the professionals who have evaluated you, then you can be certain of one thing: your fear is directly contributing to your panic episodes.

By making the decision to accept the possibility of a negative outcome, you circumvent the requirement for absolute certainty of your future comfort and safety.

Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.

Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing.

true faith never comes without anguish.

I almost hope it is a mouth that opens directly to hell, for of a certainty, we could use the heat.

Sometimes I really hate being right.

I have never been one for putting my faith in odds. I put my faith in higher things.

My books show me what it's like to live in a reliable country where you flick on a switch and a bulb is guaranteed to shine and remain on, where you know that cars will stop at red lights and those traffic lights will not cease working a couple of times a day. How does it feel when a plumber shows up at the designated time, when he shows up at all? How does it feel to assume that when someone says she'll do something by a certain date, she in fact does it?

An idea that sounds definite when aired as an opinion may not always appear so certain when applied to human beings.

We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust?

I did not, any longer, want to persuade anyone of anything.

You know, Jeffers, that I am interested in the existence of things before our knowledge of them – partly because I have trouble believing that they do exist!

Let's not be overconfident, we still have to count the votes.

Perhaps one day earthquakes, hurricanes and financial crashes will all be predictable. But we don't have to wait until then for seismology, meteorology and economics to become sciences; they already are.

To some people, the impossible is impossible. One fine day, they wake up in the morning knowing that they will never hold the moon in their hands, and with the certainty, perfect peace descends on them.

Certain though I am - and ever more certain - that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

Never underestimate the power of confidence. If you believe you're the dopest thing walking, you might convince people of the same just because you're so headstrong about it as a fact.

I do not. I don't bet.

I'm not the betting kind.

Bill Haskell was real.

I blindly trust Sangram.

For some reason, comedy just comes easily to me, and I feel like I can do it. I don't have any doubt. When I work on drama, there's always a sense of 'Did I find this person's truth at the bottom of this?' And it's hard to tell sometimes.

We don't have to test our boundaries anymore. We definitely know what they are.