Quotes About Certainty

So often, it seems, that willful ignorance is, now, the default position for absolute certainty. Dudley Sharp, 2019

When every answer and its opposite appears equally obvious, then, as Lazarsfeld put it, "something is wrong with the entire argument of 'obviousness.' "5

Reader, if thou to credit what is here Art slow, 'tis no surprise, since I can scarce Believe, who saw it all as clear as clear.

God never made a promise that was too good to be true.

If you don't have confidence in the diagnosis, you won't have confidence in the prescription.

Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do.

The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life.

Nothing in life is sure, my son. Except the promise of death.

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

Faith is building on what you know is here so that you can reach what you know is there.

It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose.

to keep believing in life, until you're sure of death, it's the way a detective should be." - Kogoro Mouri, Detective Conan

I approach everything in my life the same way; if it feels right, I know it.

We know nothing. And just because you know something to be true at this moment in your life or you feel that it is true, you can never be sure of yourself.

Life is doubt, And faith without doubt is nothing but death.

At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.

Life is uncertain; death is certain.

Since no one can ever know for certain whether or not his own view of life is the correct one, it is absolutely impossible for him to know if someone else's is the wrong one.

In real life a right-angled triangle is very unlikely to have a square on its hypotenuse.

The fact speak for themselves.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

The fact is there is nothing that you can trust; and that is a terrible fact, whether you like it or not. Psychologically there is nothing in the world, that you can put your faith, your trust, or your belief in. Neither your gods, nor your science can save you, can bring you psychological certainty; and you have to accept that you can trust in absolutely nothing.