Quotes About Certainty

The fact that we do not have absolute certainty in regard to any human conclusions does not mean that the task of inquiry is fruitless. We must, it is true, always proceed on the basis of probability, but to have probability is to have something. What we seek in any realm of human thought is not absolute certainty, for that is denied us as men, but rather the more modest path of those who find dependable ways of discerning different degrees of probability.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

Again, it is self-evident that truth exists. For truth exists if anything at all is true, and if anyone denies that truth exists, he concedes that it is true that it does not exist, since if truth does not exist it is then true that it does not exist.

nothing can be known, save what is true;

sin embargo, el conocimiento más delgado que se puede obtener de las cosas más altas es más deseable que el conocimiento más cierto obtenido de las cosas menores

For this reason truth is defined by the conformity of intellect and thing; and hence to know this conformity is to know truth.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

Always" and "never" are not words that have much meaning in literary study. For one thing, as soon as something seems to always be true, some wise guy will come along and write something to prove that it's not.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

The Everlasting Yea.

The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief

A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things.

So how do we know anything at all, if in fact we do know anything at all?

and then you would never be happy." 21. ?Yet We made them known to others thus, that they would know the promise of God is true, and that there can be no doubt about the end of time.

I wouldn't necessarily say I'm arrogant. I'm just confident.

For I never have seen, and never shall see, that the cessation of the evidence of existence is necessarily evidence of the cessation of existence.

In one way or another, all my songs are about the necessity for trust.

I have no doubt who I am.

I will stay at Atletico; there is no doubt about that.

With the Roses, I knew we were great; I felt that we would achieve something. On my own, I had no idea.

There are those who want to believe but can't, and there are those who believe as children and it's no problem for them at all.

Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.

After all, you don't know how strong something is until you actually test it." She winked. "I read that in a fortune cookie once." "Fortune cookie?