Top 91 Certainty Doubt Quotes
#1. There is nothing worse than certainty. Doubt makes us weak. That is why it's so important. I've wasted too much of my life trying to be powerful.
Phillip Andrew Bennett Low
#2. There are two modes of knowledge: through argument and through experience. Argument brings conclusions and compels us to concede them, but it does not cause certainty nor remove doubts that the mind may rest in truth, unless this is provided by experience.
Roger Bacon
#4. Only trust in God can transform doubts into certainty, evil into good, night into radiant dawn.
Pope Francis
#5. Living by faith isn't living with certainty. It's trusting God in spite of unanswered questions and unresolved doubts.
Rick Warren
#6. God transcends and encompasses conservatism and liberalism, certainty and doubt, simplicity and complexity, Divinity and humanity, crucifixion and resurrection.
Amos Smith
#7. If the opposite of certainty is doubt, humility must lie somewhere between the two,
Ron Suskind
#8. I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.
Phil Donahue
#10. Anne Lamott: The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty.
Brene Brown
#11. In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.
David Hume
#12. We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.
William Deresiewicz
#13. Faith, doubt, humility, and confidence - this is the stuff and substance of theology at its best. Swagger, smugness, and certainty - this is the stuff and substance of ideology at its worst.
Austin Fischer
#14. When in doubt, favor compassion
over certainty or tradition.
Ivan M. Granger
#15. Confusion is not a bad thing. It's not doubt that makes a man mad. It's certainty.
Pauline Melville
#16. Male appreciation hardened his features from doubt to certainty. Boobs, the best negotiation strategy of them all. She thanked the Lord and her genetics for her great rack.
Kate Meader
#17. The opposite of faith isn't doubt. The opposite of faith is certainty.
Claudia Gray
#18. Certainty sees things in restrictive, protective, aggressive ways, and thus isn't seeing at all.
Jerry Saltz
#19. Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.
Voltaire
#20. The opposite of faith is not doubt, it's certainty.
Anne Lamott
#21. The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks. (65)
Stephen Batchelor
#22. What is certainty but the refuge of those whose faith is not strong enough to entertain doubt.
Robert Breault
#23. You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith.
Paulo Coelho
#24. God, how I ricochet between certainties and doubts.
Sylvia Plath
#25. Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#26. Moral certainty is certainty which is sufficient to regulate our behaviour, or which measures up to the certainty we have on matters relating to the conduct of life which we never normally doubt, though we know that it is possible, absolutely speaking, that they may be false.
Rene Descartes
#27. But we couldn't see to form a chain of doubt between each other's eyes. And her voice had a vibrant certainty that made believing her feel liberating and obvious.
Miranda July
#28. Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.
Milton Glaser
#29. To believe with certainty, somebody said, one has to begin by doubting.
Sheldon Vanauken
#30. When people feel doubt in their hearts,
a certainty might be felt in an ice cream.
Toba Beta
#31. Better to live in doubt than to die in certainty.
Ira Levin
#32. The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt.
Wendy Kaminer
#33. All great discoveries," the elder Marratta had once said, "are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents." At
Mark Helprin
#34. We don't live in a world that suffers from doubt, but one that suffers from certainty, false certainties that compensate for the well of worldly anxieties and worries.
Les Back
#36. I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door.
John Patrick Shanley
#37. To have great pain is to have certainty; to hear that another person has pain is to have doubt.
Elaine Scarry
#38. The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
John Ortberg
#39. Existential anxiety of doubt drives the person toward the creation of certitude of systems of meaning, which are supported by tradition and authority. Neurotic anxiety builds a narrow castle of certitude which can be defended with the utmost certainty.
Paul Tillich
#40. All great discoveries ... are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents.
Mark Helprin
#41. Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.
Thomas Szasz
#42. In fact, as I get older, I begin to feel that actually what we need more in the world is doubt; more skepticism, less crazed certainty ... People who know the answer and are going to impose it on everybody else, I think, are terrifying people.
Ian McEwan
#43. We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#44. Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
Voltaire
#45. Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Voltaire
#46. Make an enemy of certainty and befriend doubt. When you can change your mind, you can change anything.
Kevin Ashton
#47. I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.
Christiaan Huygens
#48. I want to say to you: Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty.
John Patrick Shanley
#49. Take away this remaining doubt that, if it does not become a certainty, will turn into remorse.
Alexandre Dumas
#50. There has to be certainty and there has to be clarity. There can't be ambiguity, .. This has to be certain, clear in all respects from all the parties so nobody is in any doubt about what the future holds.
Tony Blair
#51. Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
Voltaire
#52. there is anything to be learned from the conspiracy - other than when in doubt, bet on George Washington - it is to beware the pitfalls of certainty.
Sarah Vowell
#53. I did not imitate the skeptics who doubt only for doubting's sake, and pretend to be always undecided; on the contrary, my whole intention was to arrive at a certainty, and to dig away the drift and the sand until I reached the rock or the clay beneath.
Rene Descartes
#54. Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
A.C. Grayling
#55. Lieutenant Harry Kim was, without doubt, the most optimistic individual she had ever known. No matter how close the darkness came, his determination to overcome it and certainty that goodness would prevail was refreshing. Conlon
Kirsten Beyer
#56. Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty.
Francois Mauriac
#57. Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith.
Robert Breault
#58. Both doubt and certainty are as contagious as the common cold
Kathryn Schulz
#59. In order to determine whether we can know anything with certainty, we first have to doubt everything we know. - Descartes
Lex Bayer
#60. Always doubtful is the one who always looks for certainty.
Raheel Farooq
#61. I would say that without any doubt he's the killer - the law says beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty which I - there's no question that he was the killer of President Kennedy.
Henry Wade
#62. Questioning anything within doubt,
will just bring mind to no certainty.
Toba Beta
#63. Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.
Joseph Bruchac
#64. Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.
Brian Eno
#65. There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#66. Things happen, and nothing is for sure, but you just have to keep going, believing that one day, you'll find something that is.
A.J. Darkholme
#67. When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.
Ernest Holmes
#68. At sixteen, he was cursed with all the certainty of youth, unleavened by any trace of humor or self-doubt, and wed to the arrogance that came so naturally to those born blond and strong and handsome.
George R R Martin
#69. From the house of unbelief
to true religion
is a single breath;
From the world of doubt
to certainty
is a single breath;
Enjoy this precious single breath,
for the harvest
of our whole lives
is that same one breath.
Omar Khayyam
#70. Bertrand Russell writes that the painful thing about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
Rollo May
#71. The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the queen of the sciences, is no doubt the peculiar certainty and necessity of its results.
Carl Gustav Hempel
#72. If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#73. I can't do this with you, Vincent." Lexi stepped back, putting some distance between them.
"We belong together." There was no doubt, no question in his voice, as he said the words, only
utter certainty.
Victoria Michaels
#74. In response to a letter regarding the writer's lack of religious belief:
The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.
Abigail Van Buren
#75. A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.
Walter Lippmann
#76. Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?
Philip Yancey
#78. The other guys are selling certainty. Not me. I'm on the corner with doubt.
Bill Maher
#79. For instantly, as the sentence ended, there was infused in my heart something like the light of full certainty and all the gloom of doubt vanished away.
Augustine Of Hippo
#80. Lord Jesus, we praise you for your victory over death and your grace. In our moments of doubt and worry, remind us of the certainty of the resurrection, until we see it with our own eyes. Amen.
Northwestern Publishing House
#81. Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.
Criss Jami
#82. There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.
Margaret Deland
#83. If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics ...
Roger Bacon
#84. The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with certainty that they possess the right are dark inside and darken the world outside with cruelty, pain, and injustice.
Saul D. Alinsky
#85. My creativity isn't rooted in confidence. It grows from many things, no doubt, but chief among them is a deep, rebellious, and indeed almost hostile stance toward complacency- about anything. It feels like the enemy. And certainty? It closes doors. Ends discussions. Shuts other people out.
Robin Black
#86. Whatever doubt might rise, he knew that he was right. But the rightness was an intellectual rightness and the doubt emotional.
Clifford D. Simak
#87. I hoisted myself onto my elbows. "Yeah, well, if I ever come back as a Grigori, then I'll kick your ass."
"You'll come back, and you'll be a Grigori." He spoke with such certainty it made me smile. "I doubt very greatly, however, that you'll kick my ass. But me and my ass will enjoy your efforts.
Jessica Shirvington
#88. To be creative you must set aside both certainty and doubt.
Pearl Zhu
#89. Knowledge breeds doubt, not certainty,
And the more we know the more uncertain we become.
A.J.P. Taylor
#90. The man who does good in doubt must have so much more merit than one who does it in the bright certainty of belief. "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold ... " A warning against the smugness of inherited faith.
Morris L. West
#91. Night fell, the first I had spent not embracing a rock, and perhaps for this reason it seemed cruelly shorter to me. The light tended at every moment to erase Ayl, to cast a doubt on her presence, but the darkness restored my certainty she was there.
Italo Calvino
