Quotes About Certainty

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

What I have always loved best about the history of the world is that it is true. That all the extraordinary things we read were no less real than you and I are today.

These guys, they were so sure of their places in life--so deeply confident of their merit and their future--they didn't need any kind of front at all.

She never seemed to second-guess her thoughts. Me, I second-guess everything.

Be decisive; no one likes a waffler"; "Never complain, never explain"—

HERE IS THE truth

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

We're engaged to be engaged, aren't we?

Absolute certainty is no more attainable in metaphysics than it is in any other field of rational inquiry and it is unfair to criticize metaphysics for failing to deliver what no other discipline - not even mathematics - is expected to deliver.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

I'm always right. I'm quite uneasy at being always right so often.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch....

The unbeliever has always such a very clear idea as to what Belief ought to be, I wish I had half his certainty.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

and laughed at his theories, and proved that no man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.

A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

Truth is not mathematical concept that needs to be proved with equations. Its singleness demands an intact moral compass, with certainties about what is good and bad.

One thing that you can always be sure of when it comes to networks: they're always changing

Are you sure? You have to be sure. I'm not saying that to cover myself, or to put the responsibility on your shoulders. It's my responsibility as much as yours. And I know that in a way no one can be sure about anything like this. I just don't know if this is the right thing, and you have to help me.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

Certainty is the belief and adherence to a point of view, often accompanied by vehement argument. Clarity is being able to see and learn more of what is really going on, the full spectrum of dimensions that emerge as critically important as events unfold.1 We add that seeing with more clarity and abandoning certainty are benefits of a Humble Inquiry attitude.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." [Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)]