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Quotes About Certainty

Truth, like love, is never absolute.
~ E. Lynn Harris
The only atheism is the denial of truth.
~ Arthur Lynch
Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.
~ Stephen Colbert
There can be no absolute reality, there can be no absolute truth.
~ Kevin Warwick
...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.
~ David Foster Wallace
It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.
~ Albert Einstein
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Death is a mighty, universal truth.
~ Charles Dickens
There is faith in every serious doubt, namely, the faith in the truth as such, even if the only truth we can express is our lack of truth.
~ Paul Tillich
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
~ G.K. Chesterton
One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.
~ G. C. Lichtenberg
There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve.
~ George MacDonald
Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.
~ Benjamin Peirce
Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth?
~ Paul Gauguin
Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.
~ J. M. Coetzee
Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.
~ Louis Aragon
Answers given with authority negate the search for truth.
~ Neil Innes
One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.
~ E. M. Forster
Let the truth take care of itself, I decided. It's done all right on its own so far.
~ Russell Banks
He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth of the thing.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Hope is bulletproof, truth just hard to hit
~ Christopher Moore, Coyote Blue
If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?
~ Andrew Sullivan
No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has "The Truth". To be an atheist is almost as arrogant as to be a fundamentalist. But then again, I can get pretty arrogant.
~ Tom Lehrer
The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.
~ Frederick Carl Frieseke