Quotes About Certainty

When I stepped onto the bridge over the Iowa River and stood looking out across the water, I knew I was home. I was wrong about that, as it turns out. And I know now that my certainty was based on a series of troubling misconceptions, but it would be years before I would lose the comfort that certainty gave me.

My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.

What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride — nothing is secure, nothing keeps.

He cast one last possessive glance over his shoulder at the figure in the window. "Mine," he repeated with unshakable certainty. "Mine whether you know it or not, Lilenta. And tomorrow I claim you.

Americans need access to affordable, reliable health insurance. They want President Trump to take responsibility and work to ensure their continued access to their insurance - creating certainty and affordability, not confusion and chaos.

I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us, whether it's your religion or Santa Claus, or whatever. That's pretty much what it's about.

'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.

You can't rely on your own perception when it comes to anything. You can always be proved wrong.

It's great to know that you can rely on anyone.

They feel assured, as to yourself, that if the option remain with you, it is but a question of time and of form when and how a proclamation of emancipation will be issued.

We remain very confident in the safety of U.S. beef.

If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying.

That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.

I think facts remove assumptions.

George W. Bush, judging by his repeated invocations, thinks that time will eventually prove that he was right. He is not alone in putting his faith in the future.

In America, we've replaced science with experts.

Facts cannot be replaced by opinion.

I knew my reporting would be validated eventually.

The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

That idea of being so sure of what has happened, and what will happen, is the most idiotic human thing that anyone can do.

Never trust people; always trust paper. I'd marry a piece of paper if I could.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

'Belief' means something that you do not know. You want to assume and bring a certainty to something that you do not know. That means you are concretising your ignorance. There is no need to believe anything.