Quotes About Certainty

Three things that cannot be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.

There's nothing I hate more than someone who speaks in the draft room with absolute conviction, but they have nothing to back it up.

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

I absolutely don't believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.

To me, the difference between a good marriage and a great marriage is conviction.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

You're married, and suddenly you have your own family. There's a nice comfort in that. That part of your life is certain ... You've got your home in that other person.

I don't like being best man at a wedding 'cause there's no way to prove it.

An intelligent person may be wrong sometimes, but a fool is never wrong. The medical profession is never wrong.

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that the believer would stake his life on it a thousand times.

A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.

Ladies: If a man really wants to be with you, you WILL know it! If you have to question it, let it go!

The Christian is a man who can be certain about the ultimate even when he is most uncertain about the immediate.

When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.

There is no man more dangerous than one who does not doubt his own rightness.

If a man can predict his own death and resurrection, and pull it off, I just go with whatever that man says

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken.

No man knows distinctly anything, and no man ever will.

Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.

No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.