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Quotes About Certainty

Faith has need of the whole truth.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.
~ Max Frisch
Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities.
~ Agnes Meyer Driscoll
Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.
~ Antonio Machado
Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testimony of the truth.
~ Thomas S. Monson
Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.
~ Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book
The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
~ Ludwig von Mises
Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, 'Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith!'
~ Dan Barker
Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
~ Blaise Pascal
You don't believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they're true.
~ Veronica Roth, Allegiant
Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.
~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
~ Tom Stoppard
Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.
~ Luigi Pirandello
On cannot be precise, and still be true.
~ Marc Chagall
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting
~ Fernand Leger
As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'
~ Richard Whately
But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.
~ Ken Kesey
Truth is not arrived at by majority vote.
~ Peter Atkins
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
~ Denis Diderot
Who dares To say that he alone has found the truth?
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow