Quotes About Certainty

At the age of five, Gustav Perle was certain of only one thing: he loved his mother.

Faith isn't absence of doubt. It's belief without proof, not without question.

Sad is the man who has no place to put his faith other than in himself.

eso es todo, ¡y nada más!»

ever the skeptic, I demanded hardcore proof. It appeared I didn't trust my own feelings as much as I did science.

The absence of proof does not constitute the proof of absence.

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

When I was a child I remember days that stretched into infinity with the certainty of other infinite days; certain, unhurried and brimmingly full.

Is what I say true? Say yes quickly, if you know, if you've known it from before the beginning of the universe.

The biggest scientific delusion of all is that science already knows the answers. The details still need working out but, in principle, the fundamental questions are settled.

I know it when I don't know it. Sometimes I know it when I don't think I know it. I need to trust myself in these moments, these rare moments of self-doubt.

As we journey through the world, we must inevitably encounter meanness and selfishness. As we fight for our survival, the higher visions and ideals often fade. It is then that we need ladybirds! Contemplating that tiny creature, or the flower on which it rests, gives one the hope—better, the certainty—that there is more to life than interest rates, dividends, market forces, and infinite technology.

Let the truth take care of itself, I decided. It's done all right on its own so far.

They had applied their doubts to the very head that had introduced doubt as a tool for advancing knowledge. And in the end they gave the head a nod.

devote what time I may still have to live to no other occupation than that of endeavoring to acquire some knowledge of Nature, which shall be of such a kind as to enable us there from to deduce rules in medicine of greater certainty than those in present use.

There is no higher authority.

Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.

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Assertion as comfort, certain as death.

know, when James was born, I knew in here that

Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees.

But if I can't go from the body I have to a body that I am certain would feel very right—right like having wings would be or even right like wearing spats would be—then I think, maybe not for me.

Doubt anything you like,' said the tyger, fi tv rand proud. 'Doubt the clouds in the sky, the movements of the tide, or the turning of this world around its sun. But never, ever doubt me.