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Quotes About Certainty

"It was as true " said Mr. Barkis ... "as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them."
~ Charles Dickens
Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Faith is evidence unseen and never seen, trust is gained from evidence seen and understood.
~ Gary J. Spaulding
Faith all grown up is trust.
~ Adam LiVecchi
I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith.
~ James Lovelock
A man without trust might as well be dead.
~ Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos
If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. Trust your intuition and don't ask "why", just say no.
~ Maria Erving
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
~ Rene Descartes
You must learn all things, both the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, and the opinions of mortals in which there is no true warranty.
~ Parmenides
Truth is not what I say it is, and not what you think it is. Truth is what God's word says it is.
~ John Hagee
I don't believe in empirical science. I only believe in a priori truth.
~ Kurt Gödel
Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
~ Giordano Bruno
Science has promised us truth...It has never promised us either peace or happiness.
~ Gustave Le Bon
However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
~ George Orwell
There is no such thing as truth. The only thing that is actually there is your 'logically' ascertained premise, which you call truth.
~ U.G. Krishnamurti
I encounter one example after another of how relative truth is.
~ Raoul Wallenberg
They must find it difficult ... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.
~ Gerald Massey
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
~ Paul Cezanne
A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Some things are true whether you believe in them or not.
~ Nicolas Cage
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Holy Scripture could never lie or err...its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
~ Galileo Galilei