Quotes About Certainty

A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.

Men educated in [the critical habit of thought]are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and without pain.

I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.

Believe things, rather than man.

The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.

...and it is a serious matter to destroy a man's faith without replacing it.

A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.

I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.

That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.

Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.

There is no such thing as a convincing argument, although every man thinks he has one.

The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion

Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it[.

A man can reach into anything and turn it to his cause. It's not want, or desire, just certainty. Only be assured that whatever you reach into will reach into you in turn.

There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot.

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

The 'expert' is the man who stays put.

The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is

My only complaint with 'Dickie' Bird is that he requires a degree of certainty that is almost neurotic; like the man who has to keep going to the front door to make certain that he's locked it.

Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.

Although I'm a very emotional man, I just can't have blind faith, I have to find out for myself.

The man who remains in his sin will be damned just as surely as the sun comes up in the east and goes down in the west.

He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.