Quotes About Certainty

Reason steps in after, not before, experience; it sorts our observations into meaningful patterns and arrives at a knowledge as certain and exact as anything in Plato's Forms.

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes.

The only atheism is the denial of truth.

Perhaps men could accustom themselves to living with a small amount of doubt. I think doubt a necessary ingredient to live.

Am I sure? Only as sure as I am that the reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can ever be the whole truth.

Es la duda la que mantiene joven a la gente. La certeza es como un virus maligno. Te contagia de vejez.

Para un marino a bordo de un barco, lo mismo que para el soldado en la batalla o para el feligrés arrodillado ante un sacerdote, la enormidad de la propia insignificancia resultaba tan evidente que el único consuelo era imaginarse gobernados por hombres que poseía certezas en lugar de preguntas.

La duda destruye más que las certezas.

los caminos de los cementerios estaban empedrados de certezas.

Por desconfiar, todavía no se ha muerto nadie. Llegan

Se asumen, se cumplen, y punto... Sin grandes gestos. Sin dramatismos.

Él tenía la certeza de que iba a salir con bien de aquélla; y a su regreso ya no tendría que arar la tierra ingrata en la que había nacido, seca y maldita de Dios, tierra de caínes esquilmada por reyes, curas, señores, funcionarios, recaudadores de impuestos y alguaciles; por sanguijuelas que vivían del sudor ajeno.

A medida que transcurría el tiempo, se afirmaba en la certeza de que el mundo y la vida eran más fáciles de entender a través de un libro.

en el oficio de las armas, y por si acaso, la duda debe tratarse como si fuera certeza.

once the habit of questioning his word got afoot in this sphere— and that too a sphere so vast as to encompass 'affairs of the world'—what was there to stop it from taking apart and examining what the Prophet had said on affairs of things other than the world? Where would that leave the religion? The anxieties could be kept at bay in one way and one way alone—by ensuring that nothing but nothing was examined. Accordingly, this has been the hallmark of faith.

I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.

The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

Why would you need a DNA test? I already know you're a fucking space cadet.

It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.

The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.

trust and believe

But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.

What do you know and how do you know it