Quotes About Certainty

Without faith there is no truth, for that is all the truth is or ever was.

Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

To accept on faith is the basic requirement for getting on with life.

What is certainty but the refuge of those whose faith is not strong enough to entertain doubt.

In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe.

You call for faith:I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.The more of doubt, the stronger faith, I say,If faith o'ercomes doubt.

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.

Never and forever are usually neither

At the very least, one would hope that by becoming aware of the many ways our brain can trick us, we would arrive at the conclusion Bertrand Russell thought was a necessary consequence of the limits of knowledge: we should be less cocksure of our beliefs, hold them tentatively, and always be on guard against thinking our feeling of absolute certainty implies we're right.

And even if by chance he were to utter the perfect truth, he would himself not know it, for all is but a woven web of guesses.

Conviction Bias I believe in this idea so strongly. It must be true.

the wise man never assumes anything, never regrets anything, is never wrong, never changes his mind.

How fortunate the man who never knew doubt.

YOU CAN ALWAYS SPOT A FOOL, for he is the man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election

let me tell you that the one sin I have come to fear more than any other is certainty. Certainty is the great enemy of unity. Certainty is the deadly enemy of tolerance. Even Christ was not certain at the end........Our faith is a living thing precisely because it walks hand in hand with doubt. If there was only certainty, and if there was no doubt, there would be no mystery, and therefore no need for faith.

Faith that cannot withstand the truth is not a faith worth holding.

The great trouble with religion - any religion - is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence. One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason - but one cannot have both.

Knowing serves no real purpose, but then, neither does not knowing. Myself, I always prefer knowing to not.

I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen,would not. -Robert Jordan(The eye of the world,Wheel of time)

Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men's heads.

Lan said the time to sound most sure was when you were least certain.

To believe a thing is not to make it true.

A man without trust might as well be dead.