Quotes About Certitude

Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.

The moment you know you know you know.

The author writes that the central conflict within journalist and seller of the American way Henry Luce was between his curiosity and his certitude.

I don't believe there is a God. I know there is a God.

Faith that is sure of itself is not faith; faith that is sure of God is the only faith there is.

I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't want to hope - I want to know. Like I don't hope there's a God, I know there's a God.

For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.

In what concerns divine things, belief is not appropriate. Only certainty will do. Anything less than certainty is unworthy of God.

For Man nothing is beyond doubt; for God everything is beyond doubt.

Mature psychological health cannot exist unless we are capable of doubting any form of conceptual certitude about ourselves or anything else.

Whoever doubt is in state of delusion.

A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.

You've got an answer for everything... It's one of the side effects of being right all the time.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

I don't need faith. I have experience.

You had no faith to lose and you know it.

To doubt is to deny the divinity of being.

Because only the truest things always are true because they can't be true

not once did I question either my sanity or my wakefulness.

The habit of questioning everything can be dangerous, for sooner or later it will surely bring a man into head-on collision with the unquestionable, and he will not be able in conscience to draw aside.

Knowing it--knowing it's true is one thing, but believing what you know... well, there's the tough part.

I just knew. There was no movie ending. There was only an ending.

But always think the last opinion right.

She writes: "I see nothing and I see all; certitude is obtained in the darkness;"1166 that is, I see nothing determinate, but I see all the divine perfections united, fused in an ineffable manner in the eminence of the Deity.