Quotes About Assurance

Ananda always wanted to listen and learn, while I was devoted to active practice. This is why I have already managed to attain supreme awakening, while Ananda has been taking care of my teachings. He will take care of the Dharma storehouses of future buddhas, and teach, transform, and develop multitudes of bodhisattvas. Such was his original vow. So now he receives this assurance.

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

Promise is most given when the least is said.

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

Something about Linus made me feel at ease. You knew that he was sincere and whatever he told you wouldn't be a lie.

I apologize for kidnapping you," he said. "I promise not to kidnap you before, during, or after lunch.

The crux of his new philosophy is this: What assurance do we have that our a priori (rational) thoughts have in reality a relation to objects that exist apart from us?

Are we not somehow compelled by love? I shall not let one day pass without giving you the assurance of mine. Surely there is a future for us together. I am yours yours yours.

She was a part, an evidence, of some pure uncracked unfissured confidence in the good which was never there for me again.

And of those who were aware, there were dime classes. First, there were the many who knew little and were very confident.

Valamilyen garanciára szükségem van. – Szavamat adom. – Ami, ugyebár, fölbecsülhetetlen érték? – hajolt meg gúnyosan Pherl –, de azért az ön jelenléte, ugyebár, mégiscsak nagyobb biztosítékot jelentene!

She said, "I was just guessing." He said, "No, you weren't. Whatever it was, it wasn't just guessing.

Miss Rose has decided that Eliza would have learning, dowry, and fame as a beauty even if she was not one, because it was her view that beauty is a question of style. Any woman who conducts herself with the queenly assurance of a belle, she maintained, will convince everyone that she is beautiful.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Better be too credulous than too skeptical

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

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

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

I'm from Missouri; you must show me.

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable ... we must be content to creep along the ground, and can never soar.

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

I'm often wrong, but never in doubt.

The successful man is he who, when he sees that no further certainty is attainable, promptly decides on the most probable side, as if he were completely sure it was right.