Quotes About Certainty

What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.

What is necessary is never a risk.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.

You are all you will ever have for certain.

Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.

Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor.

With most people, doubt about one thing is simply blind belief in another.

Skeptics are never deceived.

I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.

Faith is the evidence of things not seen.

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.

Faith is believing before receiving.

I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.

Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to that alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.

A timid question will always receive a confident answer.

Death and taxes are inevitable.

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.

I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that... absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not one jot. The possibility is always there.

I may have faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.

When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.

"Que scais-je?" was the motto of Montaigne, As also of the first academicians: That all is dubious which man may attain, Was one of their most favourite positions. There's no such thing as certainty, that's plain As any of Mortality's conditions; So little do we know what we're about in This world, I doubt if doubt itself would be doubting.