Quotes About Certainty

I trust anybody's memory more than I trust mine.

Trust your instincts: they tend to see you right. By listening to them, at least you can sleep at night.

I have to trust my trainers 100 percent.

Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of Americans to plan for their retirement with the options and certainty they deserve.

Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.

I want my clients to trust me.

Trust is very hard if you don't know what you're trusting.

Trusting the world is a risk, while not trusting it is a guarantee you'll be left with nothing.

I'm a guy that verifies before he trusts.

I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.

You can't argue with the truth.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

At times, we need to stop and rethink everything. Our entire history is made up of people who were sure they knew the truth yet forgot that the truth has an annoying tendency to change on occasion without us noticing it.

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

Truth is, in fact, an elusive concept. It depends almost entirely on where you are standing at the time. It is a human instinct to confuse belief with truth.

What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?

The truth is you cannot decrease the severity and certainty of sentences without increasing crime. It's simply impossible.

Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.

To believe, it seemed, one had to want to believe.

I've always been very skeptical about marriage, because I only want to do it once; I want to do it the right way.

Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.