Quotes About Certitude

Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.

One percent doubt is zero percent faith.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.

Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it - especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible.

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

Faith is certitude without proofs ... Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction.

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

Your faith is what you believe not what you know.

You don't need faith to walk on the riverbank, you need faith to walk on water.

What, after all, did the word 'faith' connote, except a willing blindness to the lack of actual proof?

Ce n'est pas facile de faire du doute son métier. On se brûle vite à côtoyer l'essentiel, et j'imagine qu'on se sent tellement soulagé quand on y renonce. Mais en refusant le doute, on est certain de se priver de la vérité.

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Faith is a certitude without proofs ... a sentiment for it is a hope it is an instinct for it precedes all outward instruction.

Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.

I had always believed that right was like north to my father: a thing as real as sunlight, a place on the map, the arrow on a compass.

However carefully a judge is protected by the experience and the logic of the law, there must be times -not many, I know, or we should have no judges- when the same frightful question must be answered. Not faced, you see, but answered. Every now and again he must have to say to himself, in effect, "Everyone agrees that this colour is black, and my reason tells me it is so, but on my soul, do I know?

There's only a slight chance of me being wrong. But even a greater chance of me being right.

I'd bet dollars to doughnuts

Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

Gurathin turned to him, impatient. "The log confirms it because that's what the Unit believes happened." Bharadwaj sighed. "Yet here I sit, alive.

Arrogant and right is surely better than humble and wrong.