Quotes About Certainty

There's no point in believing in things that exist.

Trouble is, just because things are obvious doesn't mean they're true.

Aristocrats don't notice philosophical conundra. They just ignore them. Philosophy includes contemplating the possibility that you might be wrong, sir, and a real aristocrat knows that he is always right. It's not vanity, you understand, it's built-in absolute certainty. They may sometimes be as mad as a hatful of spoons, but they are always definitely and certainly mad.

I have woken up and I am real. I know where I come from and I know where I'm going. You cannot fool me any more.

The important thing about being a leader is not being right or wrong but being certain. Of course it helps to be right as well, the Abbot conceeded.

They weren't looking at him as if he was their only hope. They were looking at him as if he was their Certainty.

We always ken where we are! It's just sometimes mebbe we aren't sure where everything else is, but it's no' our fault if everything else gets lost! The Nac Mac Feegle are never lost!

MERE ACCUMULATION OF OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE IS NOT PROOF.

Once you've ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out what was impossible, of course. That was the trick, all right.

He believed in rational thinking and scientific inquiry, which was why he never won an argument with his mother, who believed in people doing what she told them, and believed it with a rock-hard certainty which dismissed all opposition.

the damned had been given that insight which makes hardship so easy to bear — the absolute and certain knowledge that things could be worse.

She was so confused. No, she wasn't.

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

And you just know he knows he knows.

When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us.

Knowledge is the first obstacle of the mind that a meditator should be able to remove. We should not be too sure of anything.

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

There's Frog Jump on my GPS, so it's there. It's a real place.

If something feels right, then just do it.

'King of the Cruiserweights' is not just something I say. Let me be straight. I am the king. You can see that. It's undeniable.

I don't think you need to justify faith, faith is its own justification.

These days I settle for feeling only 85 percent sure about most things, most of the time. I believe this is keeping me sane, and I also believe that it's keeping me human. In fact, I'm 85 percent sure of it.

We wanted to be certain they didn't have a bigger deficit, and Kennedy agreed with me.

If you need a door kicked in, just call, and we'll kick it. Now, it may not always be the answer you want, but you will get an answer.