Quotes About Certainty

Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right.

Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge.

Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.

There was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were.

Now I was more certain than ever of my decision. I could not love a man who did not love Jane Austen.

Xenophanes speaks thus:-And no man knows distinctly anything,And no man ever will.

I'm as fixed in my opinion as the man who thought he was a hard-boiled egg.

For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.

Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.

If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt.

More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money.

Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.

If a man says that he is Jesus Christ, it is no answer to tell him that the world denies his divinity; for the world denied Christ's.

The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.

A reasonable doubt is nothing more than a doubt for which reasons can be given. The fact that 1 or 2 men out of 12 differ from the others does not establish that their doubts are reasonable.

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.

What a man has, so much he is sure of.

Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.

You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.

Man may doubt here and there, but mankind does not doubt.

The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.