Quotes About Certainty

Attitude and faith create facts.

Oh yes. I am right until I'm proved wrong.

Surely, the gods' judgment is certain. But as for us, we must be satisfied to 'come close' to those things, for we are men, who speak according to what is likely, and whose lectures resemble fables.

With faith one attains and realises peace and harmony. With doubt one destroys and gains freedom to move ontowards.

In poetry, even discourse about doubts must be cast in a discourse that cannot be doubted.

I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only one perfect expression, Poetry. All the rest is a lie.

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

When politicians deny anything fiercely, there is a good chance that it will happen.

The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.

Under New Labour, only the future is certain. The past keeps changing

There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.

People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you've figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

I am not absolutely positive there is no god. Only in the sense that I'm not absolutely positive there is no large china teapot in orbit in the solar system.

[I'm] almost positive there is no God.

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't!

The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn-the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.

What can I hope when all is right?

I am an infidel. I know what an infidel is, and that's what I am.

Change lays her hand not upon the truth.

I'm not a proper anything. Majoring in philosophy kind of turns positive assertions into maybes.

What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong.