Quotes About Certainty

Martinez: I guarantee you this: not one of us has learned a single thing today. -Condors

Mr. Powell raised an eyebrow. 'I'm a librarian,' he said. 'I always know what I'm talking about.

The rule that science is the only way to know something is itself unscientific; it cannot be tested. So the claim that only science can demonstrate truth actually flunks its own test, since it cannot validate itself!

The truth is the truth whether you agree with it or not. The truth is not subject to your interpretation.

There is only one truth. Truth is absolute. You can't escape it, no matter how far you run.

So you only want to go all in if you're guaranteed a win ? Well . . . yeah. Is that wrong? It's not wrong, honey. It's just stupid.

daß diese Furcht zu irren schon der Irrtum selbst ist.

The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

Twat is twat and that is that.

As far as I'm concerned, humans have not yet come up with a belief that's worth believing.

And finally, I've always drawn a great deal of moral comfort from Humpty Dumpty. The part I like the best? 'All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty back together again.' That's because there is no Humpty Dumpty, and there is no God. None, not one, no God, never was.

If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.

Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.

scepticism, as we know, can never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill

What we call the 'just possible' is sometimes true and the thing we find it easier to believe is grossly false.

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.

I still think that the greater part of the world is mistaken about many things. Surely one may be sane and yet think so, since the greater part of the world has often had to come round from its opinion.

And all we've got to do is to trusten, Master Marner - to do the right thing as fur as we know and to trusten. For if us as knows so little can see a bit o' good and rights, we may be sure as there's a good and a rights bigger not what we can know - I feel it i' my own inside as it must be so.

there are many blanks left in the weeks of courtship which a loving faith fills with happy assurance.

But scepticism, as we know, can never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill:

In marriage, the certainty, 'She will never love me much,' is easier to bear than the fear, 'I shall love her no more.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that I didn't.