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Quotes About Certainty

I suppose that one is always tempted to challenge those who think that they and they alone possess the truth or the way or the key to the mystery.
~ Gore Vidal
The truth that I know for sure is that I may have an opinion, but I do not know the truth, and the other thing I know for sure is that certainty is the root of all ignorance and the root of all evil.
~ Grant Bowler
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
~ Herman Melville
The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain.
~ Herman Melville
You thought I was writing The Truth? Honey, I don't even know what The Truth means.
~ Hugh Elliot
Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.
~ Isaac Watts
Truth is it's own witness.
~ J. Richard Clarke
Those who differ most from the opinions of their fellow men are the most confident of the truth of their own.
~ James Mackintosh
All I have is an opinion - I don't deal in Truth.
~ Jean Louis
We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.
~ Jeremy Collier
I never can feel certain of any truth, but from a clear perception of its beauty.
~ John Keats
The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side.
~ John Stuart Mill
There's no truth anymore.
~ Johnny Depp
Love...is the immovability of truth.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
All I have is the truth, and I've proven that.
~ Jose Canseco
Truth is such a subjective thing.
~ Josh Tickell
But I remember being told that the truth does not depend on being believed.
~ Kevin Powers
Once torched by truth...a little thing like faith is easy.
~ Leif Enger
Not sure there is a truth that's "for sure."
~ Lenny Jacobson
God alone knows absolute Truth.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Because no one sees the truth does not make it untrue.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.
~ Margaret Atwood