“Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.”
Denis Diderot
“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.”
Vincent van Gogh
“Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.”
Voltaire
“The only unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.”
“Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about ~where~ we shall land, but rather on the belief that we ~shall~ land.”
Carter Heyward
“The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.”
Erich Fromm
