Quotes About Certainty

You don't have doubts when you get offered 'Question Time.' You think, thank you very much.

The first thing that comes out of my mouth is always right.

We'd all like to be certain of what we know, but I think the most important question is to ask yourself do you really know what you know?

The one thing I can assure you is that I'm not going to do a Prescott.

Change is the one thing we can be sure of.

That's the one thing I don't like hearing, when someone says, 'We'll see what happens, see what happens here, see what happens there.' Forget all of that.

As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility.

I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.

The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer.

The problem with Raven is that she's so smart, so sometimes it's hard for her to be hopeful or idealistic, because she's so realistic. So even if she's working on a solution, she's not proud of it until it's concrete.

Confidence, knowing for certain that the person making the call has your safety foremost in their mind. And knowing that the job you are about to take on is the right thing to do, that it makes sense.

I don't think I'm romantic at all. I have a lot of faith in the right thing happening. I don't really hope for a lot of particulars, I just have faith that the right thing will happen most of the time.

I have to make sure that I am doing the right thing. I can't afford to make any mistake.

The discomfort I felt under that moral pressure has stayed with me all my life and made me eternally wary of the blindness of ideological certainty.

faith that's primarily intellectual—that is, a matter of mastering information—is deceptively fragile.

Descartes defendía que el mejor método consistía en comenzar aceptando como verdaderas únicamente aquellas ideas que quedaban con claridad fuera de dudas. Ni la autoridad, ni tan siquiera nuestros propios sentidos deben hacernos aceptar una supuesta verdad. Solo son ciertas las cosas de las que podemos estar seguros. Y el primer principio de este método es «pienso, luego existo».

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics...

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundation of knowledge in mathematics.

As Mark Twain reportedly said, "It's not what you don't know that gets you into trouble, it's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His.

Tant la réalité a d'évidence ... Tant cette évidence s'impose! ... Dès que les choses sont arrivées, nous ne pensons même plus qu'elles auraient pu ne pas être ... Ou qu'elles auraient pu être toutes différentes.

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt. (p. 21)