Quotes About Certainty

To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.

Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth

... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.

But yet, I say, if imputation and strong circumstances, which lead directly to the door of truth, will give you satisfaction, you may have it.

Is not the truth the truth?

Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

Belief means not wanting to know what is true.

For dear me, why abandon a beliefMerely because it ceases to be true

They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true.

Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit. Einer kann sich nicht beweisen: aber zweie kann man bereits nicht widerlegen.

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics.

He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.

But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy.

"It was as true" said Mr. Barkus "as taxes is. And nothing is truer than them."

Dogmatism is inversely proportional to evidence.

There is peace in knowing that whatever one thinks it is not the truth.

Maybe nothing is completely true, and not even that.

You can't lie to a dead person.They already know the truth.

Of course, there is no conceivable way of getting by reason from the proposition "I am losing interest in this" to the proposition "This is false.

Whatever you believe is true, is.

F-A-I-T-H The Fundamental Authority of Irrefutable Truth that assures confident Hope

90 times truth is beyond expectations, 10 times expectations become truth.