Quotes About Certainty

A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.

a hitetlenség erÅ'sebb a hitnél, mert az érzékekre támaszkodik.

while the outside world was full of danger, I knew my interior. I was certain that I could oust an intruder there.

I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God's help.

The map was just an accessory. She knew exactly where she was.

Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.

When I was learning by myself, despite my parents, despite my teachers, despite society, when I was fighting for building my life as a young wire walker at age 16, I didn't have feelings, I had certainties.

Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts.

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process.

The supporters now, the bureaucrats of science, do not wish to take any risks. So in order to get it supported, they want to know from the start that it will work.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

When the calamity we feared is already arrived, or when the expectation of it is so certain as to shut out hope, there seems to be a principle within us by which we look with misanthropic composure on the state to which we are reduced, and the heart sullenly contracts and accommodates itself to what it most abhorred.

If someone accuses me of not being born here, I can go -within 10 minutes - to my filing cabinet and I can pick up my real birth certificate and I can go, 'See? Look! Here it is. Here it is.'

The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.

I'm still a little certain I'm a wizard.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

Go back to what's good, what's certain, what's always there. You woke up today. Just start walking. Whatever it is, it'll pass. Time doesn't go backward. That's the one real blessing. It happened; it does you no good to worry. Keep it movin'.

Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?

Be always sure you are right - then go ahead.