Quotes About Certainty

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

The truth, it needs no proof. Either it is or it isn't.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

The only absolute truth is that there are no absolute truths.

I never said it was possible. I only said it was true.

It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.

Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.

There aint no substitute for the truth, either it is or it isnt. You see the truth it needs no proof, either it is or it isnt. And you know the truth by the way you feel.

See now the power of truth.

A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.

If ... it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what is in my power, namely, suspend judgement.

"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."

Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.

When you are absolutely, positively sure you know all there is to know about anything, you're as far from the truth as you will ever be.

I would give my life for a man who is looking for the truth. But I would gladly kill a man who thinks that he has found the truth.

What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.

Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.

Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.

Doubt . . . impels a search for the truth. It opens the door to knowledge. Faith puts a lock on the door. Indeed, . . . faith anesthetizes the desire to seek knowledge and truth.

Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.

It is not our believing of the Gospel that makes it true. It exists as independent, true Truth.