Quotes About Certainty

Of course, if you've made up your mind about it, you'll find an answer to everything.

Oh, my friend, have I not said to you all along that I have no proofs. It is one thing to know that a man is guilty, it is quite another matter to prove him so. And, in this case, there is terribly little evidence. That is the whole trouble.

Lo imposible no puede haber sucedido; por tanto, lo imposible tiene que ser posible, a pesar de las apariencias.

Oh no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.

I mean that if you are not absolutely sure of a thing, it is so difficult to commit yourself to a definite course of action.

The accepted version of certain facts is not necessarily the true one.

I may," said Poirot in a completely unconvinced tone, "be wrong." Morton smiled. "But that doesn't often happen to you?" "No. Though I will admit - yes, I am forced to admit - that it has happened to me." "I must say I'm glad to hear it! To be always right must be sometimes monotonous." "I do not find it so," Poirot assured him.

Proof must be solid break walls of facts.

One does not like to make definite assertions unless one has a little more definite knowledge.

Imposibilul nu poate sa se fi intamplat, ca atare imposibilul trebuie sa fie posibil, in ciuda aparentelor.

But if I am right," thought Poirot, "and after all, it is natural to me to be right

It is looking for the needle in the haystack, I grant—but in the haystack there is a needle—of that I am convinced!

To deceive deliberately—that is one thing. But to be so sure of your facts, of your ideas and of their essential truth that the details do not matter—that, my friend, is a special characteristic of particularly honest persons.

But then, how do you know?' 'Because I am Hercule Poirot! I do not need to be told.

One man in a thousand can see the moons of Jupiter. Because the other nine hundred and ninety-nine can't see them there's no reason to doubt that the moons of Jupiter exist, and certainly no reason for calling the thousandth man a lunatic.

We do not agree, eh?" said Poirot. "Well, let us leave it. Time will show which of us is right.

I don't think. I know.

and after all I am constantly in the habit of being right"—Race smiled into his moustache at this typical utterance

not for any consideration! You can be quite sure of that.

Whatever people say, there is right, there is wrong. There is nothing in between.' - Hercule Poirot (Murder on the Orient Express)

Faith can't be reasoned with. Otherwise it would've been called Fact.

People have blind faith in confident fools

'Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith.

I don't want to mar the moment with questions. By not asking too much, you can believe in almost anything.