Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.

We as human beings like to be cocksure and certain.

I'm rarely wrong.

I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

When I make a decision, I never am wrong, and I seldom have doubts.

I have absolute faith in the correctness of my course.

I do have strong opinions.

I may be wrong, but I am never in doubt! And anyone who has been around me for even a minute understands that my self-confidence and self-esteem is sometimes overwhelming!

I don't believe. I know.

Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one would lie in his place

I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right.

I just assume I'm right. Partially out of conviction and partially as a pose.

What blows me away most is how sure people are of themselves.

You have to have a hell of a lot of confidence in what you're doing.

However unapproachable these problems may seem to us and however helpless we stand before them, we have, nevertheless, the firm conviction that their solution must follow by a finite number of purely logical processes.

You can't kind of take away, you either do or you don't. If you kind of take away something you're a failure.

To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power.

Faith is conviction without evidence, and sometimes even in the face of contrary evidence. In some quarters, this quality is perceived as a virtue.

Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.

There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve.

Doubt is long-winded. Certainty is brief.

It's unbelievable to me how sure people can be of themselves.

Faith means being sure of what we hope for now. It means knowing something is real, this moment, all around you, even when you don't see it.

If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt.