Quotes About Certainty

I wish I was as sure of anything as Macaulay is of everything.

Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution ... is, as far as possible, to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices; simply to do what you find yourself doing; to float in the great current of life with as little friction as possible; to allow things to settle themselves, as indeed they do with the most infallible certainty.

When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith.

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

A power greater than any human being helped make this decision.

A door must either be shut or open.

No question is ever settled until it is settled right.

Waiting is not mere empty hoping. It has the inner certainty of reaching the goal.

Of that there is no manner of doubt - No probable, possible shadow of doubt - No possible doubt whatever.

And he that doubteth is damned if he eat.

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable ... we must be content to creep along the ground, and can never soar.

The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.

When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed.

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so.

A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

Doubt is not a pleasant state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

I'm often wrong, but never in doubt.

There is one thing certain, namely, that we can have nothing certain; therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain.

The demand is for certainty is a sign of weakness.

The successful man is he who, when he sees that no further certainty is attainable, promptly decides on the most probable side, as if he were completely sure it was right.