Quotes About Certitude

When has faith ever been about feelings?

Arrogant and right is surely better than humble and wrong.

There are moments of faith, interspersed with times when the smoke & flames of burning children blot out our faith... although it flickers again. The difference between the skeptic & the believer is the frequency of faith and not the certitude of one's position.

I wish I was as sure of anything as Macaulay is of everything.

Of that there is no manner of doubt - No probable, possible shadow of doubt - No possible doubt whatever.

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so.

In case of doubt, decide in favor of what is correct.

I bet my buttons

The moral certitude of the state in wartime is a kind of fundamentalism. And this dangerous messianic brand of religion, one where self-doubt is minimal, has come increasingly to color the modern world of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.

That's damned likely," Gant interjected

Faith is believing in something you know isn't true.

Don't you give me that postmodern bullshit. There is truth, There is a truth. And what you want, or you feel, or you need, isn't going to change the truth. Any more than it's going to topple a skyscraper. There's truth, and there's belief. Don't call a mule a stallion.

The university doesn't THINK; the university KNOWS. If the university says it's Thursday, then it's Thursday.

Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.

Yeah, well, 'true' isn't a question mark, either," V took a pause.

it should serve as a warning to those rash political theorists of to-day who speak with certitude of social processes. Capitalism

I wasn't really raised to be the type of person to have doubts.

If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.

since I already know it would work, and it wouldn't illuminate any new gestalts.

Hilbert once said, "If mathematical thinking is defective, where are we to find truth and certitude?

If mathematical thinking is defective, where are we to find truth and certitude?

They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.