Certainty is the currency of fundamentalism; but being unwilling to question what you believe isn't a strength, it's a weakness.
-- Neil Carter (patheos.com)
#Wisdom #Quotes #NeilCarter #Certainty #Fundamentalism #Religion
#Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
Life is not fair for anyone. Always ready to solve problems because There is no certainty but there is always changes. We can not end all problems but with life we can try to solve problems as much as possible. Always ready to moveon.
#life #problem #certainty #moveon
A quotation from Josh Billings
The time tew be karefullest iz when we hav a hand full ov trumps.
[The time to be most careful is when we have a hand full of trumps.]
Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Everybody’s Friend, Or; Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, ch. 156 “Affurisms: Embers on the Harth” (1874)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/billings-josh/75899/
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.
[Le doute n’est pas une état bien agréable, mais l’assurance est un état ridicule.]
Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer [pseud. of Francois-Marie Arouet]
Letter (1770-11-28) to Frederick William, Prince of Prussia [tr. Tallentyre (1919)]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/voltaire/4016/
The Cost of Certainty: How Beliefs Cloud True Knowing and How to Recognize the Difference
https://youtu.be/WbRrRxTWUlU
#certainty #beliefvsknowing #truenknowledge #selfawareness #mindsetshift #criticalthinking #personalgrowth #emotionalattachmenttobeliefs #howtoquestionbeliefs #recognizingbeliefvsknowledge #enlightenment #overcomingillusions #questioningreality #spiritualawakening #consciousness #philosophy #truthvsillusion #selfdiscovery #howtofindtruth #openmindedness #wisdom
A quotation from Barbara Brown Taylor
I cannot say for sure when my reliable ideas about God began to slip away, but the big chest I used to keep them in is smaller than a shoebox now. Most of the time, I feel so ashamed about this that I do not own up to it unless someone else mentions it first. Then we find a quiet place where we can talk about what it is like to feel more and more devoted to a relationship that we are less and less able to say anything about.
Barbara Brown Taylor (b. 1951) American minister, academic, author
Learning to Walk in the Dark, ch. 7 (2014)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/taylor-barbara-brown…
Men insist most vehemently upon their certainties when their hold upon them has been shaken. Frantic orthodoxy is a method for obscuring doubt.
-- Reinhold Niebuhr
#Wisdom #Quotes #ReinholdNiebuhr #Anxiety #Certainty #Doubt #Orthodoxy #Religion
A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don’t make it of wood, you must make it of words, which are just as much used for idols as promissory notes are used for values.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Article (1872-05), “The Poet at the Breakfast-Table,” Atlantic Monthly
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…
The #Paradox of #Certainty;
Why #doubt is a sign of #wisdom.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/mindful-beats/202501/the-paradox-of-certainty
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
-- Bertrand Russell
Certainty is the currency of fundamentalism; but being unwilling to question what you believe isn't a strength, it's a weakness.
-- Neil Carter (patheos.com)
#Wisdom #Quotes #NeilCarter #Certainty #Fundamentalism #Religion
#Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #NativeAmerican #Utah
A quotation from Montaigne, Michel de:
«
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
[N’est rien creu si fermement, que ce qu’on sçait le moins.]
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/2886/
A quotation from Pratchett, Terry:
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The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it.
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/pratchett-terry/29249/
Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.
-- Jim Rohn
The more I see the less I know for sure.
-- John Lennon
Boy do we need some Civil Discourse in this culture! https://buff.ly/3S3t1w5 #discourse #culture #politics #knowledge #certainty
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