Quotes About Certainty

Trust in your truth. It will be the best decision you ever make.

Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.

But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!

I care what is actually true, even more than what I hope is true.

You can't let facts get in the way of the truth.

The thing is that I had no fear; no anxiety. I had this peace come over me and I just knew that word from the Lord was truth.

Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.

Through doubt we arrive at the truth.

Some sorts of truth are truer than others.

The grandeur of a philosophy does not certify its truth.

It has been said, and perhaps with truth, that the conclusions of Political Economy partake more of the certainty of the stricter sciences than those of most of the other branches of human knowledge.

If you look deep inside trust, you'll find truth.

I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.

It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.

I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.

I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.

But if it was always a point of speculation, where one person insisted it was a certain way and another denied it, how would anyone ever hold on to the truth?

What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.

Belief made no difference to the truth.

But just one gram of suspicion weighs heavier than a kilo of truth!

A man of truth must ever be confident, if he has also equal need to be diffident.

I am relieved. May I now have the truth?

There is but one indefectibly certain truth , and that is the truth that pyrrhonistic scepticism itself leaves standing, the truth that the present phenomenon of consciousness exists.

Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.