“If we base our belief systems on the humble assumption that the complexities of the world are ontologically beyond our understanding, then maybe our belief systems will make more sense and end up causing less suffering.” IfsWorldEndsSufferingBeliefUnderstandingLogicHumbleCertaintyUncertaintyComplexityAssumptionReasoningBelief SystemsOntology Author:Moby
“The scientist has to take 95 per cent of his subject on trust. He has to because he can't possibly do all the experiments, therefore he has to take on trust the experiments all his colleagues and predecessors have done. Whereas a mathematician doesn't have to take anything on trust. Any theorem that's proved, he doesn't believe it, really, until he goes through the proof himself, and therefore he knows his whole subject from scratch. He's absolutely 100 per cent certain of it. And that gives him an extraordinary conviction of certainty, and an arrogance that scientists don't have.” KnowsGivingBelieveDoneWholeScienceCertainBeliefSubjectsScientistExtraordinaryConvictionProofExperimentsCertaintyArroganceCentsMathematicianColleaguesScratchesPredecessorsTheorems Author:Christopher Zeeman
“Some people get certainty by working harder and saying I'm going to master something. Some people get certainty by lowering their expectations, going 'it will never work. And they lose their dreams, but they get their needs. The needs are not like goals. They're not like belief systems that are built into you.” PeopleNeedsDreamBeliefGoalLosesMastersExpectationsBuiltHarderCertaintyBelief Systems Author:Tony Robbins
“In Chaos Magic , beliefs are not seen as ends in themselves, but as tools for creating desired effects. To fully realize this is to face a terrible freedom in which nothing is true and everything is permitted, which is to say that everything is possible, there are no certainties , and the consequences can be ghastly.” EndsFacesBeliefRealizingMagicEffectsTerribleCreatingConsequenceToolsChaosCertaintyGhastly Book:Liber Kaos Source: Liber Kaos
“If you raise your standards but don't really believe you can meet them, you've already sabotaged yourself. You won't even try; you'll be lacking the sense of certainty that allows you to tap the deepest capacity that's within you... Our beliefs are like unquestioned commands, telling us how things are, what's possible and impossible and what we can and can not do. They shape every action, every thought and every feeling that we experience. As a result, changing our belief systems is central to making any real and lasting change in our lives.” IfsTryingBelieveRealFeelingsActionBeliefResultsOur LivesImpossibleShapesStandardsCapacityRaisesSettingCommandCertaintyLastingWithin YouLackingCan NotChanging Your LifeBelief SystemsBelieve You CanSabotageHigh StandardsPossible And ImpossibleLimiting BeliefsLasting ChangeRaise Your Standards Author:Tony Robbins
“God is bigger than time, dates, and appointments. He wants you to move through this day with a quiet heart, an inward assurance that He is in control, a peaceful certainty that your life is in His hands, a deep trust in His plan and purposes, and a thankful disposition, toward all that He allows. He wants you to put your faith in Him, not in a timetable. He wants you to wait on Him and wait for Him. In His perfect way He will put everything together, see to every detail... arrange every circumstance... and order every step to bring to pass what He has for you.” WayWantLifeBelieveHeartGodHandsChristianTogetherMovingLife IsPurposeFaithOrderBeliefWaitingReligiousPerfectLordStepsPlansTrustConfidenceCircumstancesQuietBiggerDetailsChristian InspirationalPeacefulCertaintyThis DayHave FaithTrust In GodInwardDispositionAssuranceCommitment To GodEvery StepConfidence In GodAppointmentsGreatness Of GodGod Within UsKeep The FaithGod Is In ControlKeep BelievingThank You GodGod Has A PlanInstruments Of GodTimetablesWait For HimPleasing GodHave A Little FaithQuiet Heart Author:Roy Lessin
“I speak "with absolute certainty" only so far as my own personal belief is concerned. Those who have not the same warrant for their belief as I have, would be very credulous and foolish to accept it on blind faith. Nor does the writer believe any more than her correspondent and his friends in any "authority" let alone "divine revelation"!” BelieveDoeWould BeBeliefSpeakMy OwnAcceptingDivineAuthorityConcernedAbsolutesBlindFoolishCertaintyRevelationsBlind FaithWarrantsAbsolute CertaintyDivine RevelationPersonal Beliefs Author:H. P. Blavatsky
“[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth.” FormBeliefPrideDevelopmentHighestCertaintySublimeIdentificationPathosInvoluntary Book:The Pre-Platonic Philosophers Source: The Pre-Platonic Philosophers