Quotes About Certainty

The sunrise never failed us yet.

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

For every crime that comes before him, a judge is required to complete a perfect syllogism in which the major premise must be the general law; the minor, the action that conforms or does not conform to the law; and the conclusion, acquittal or punishment. If the judge were constrained, or if he desired to frame even a single additional syllogism, the door would thereby be opened to uncertainty.

Quanto maggiore sarà il numero di quelli che intenderanno e avranno fralle mani il sacro codice delle leggi, tanto meno frequenti saranno i delitti, perché non v'ha dubbio che l'ignoranza e l'incertezza delle pene aiutino l'eloquenza delle passioni.

In sostanza chiedevo un letargo, un anestetico, una certezza di essere ben nascosto. Non chiedevo la pace nel mondo, chiedevo la mia.

One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be an idiocy, because it has been able to appeal to a majority.

Jacob, I know you sometimes wonder about God. But let me tell you something, God never has to wonder about you. He knows, son. He KNOWS!

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubt, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

What is faith? Is it merely assent to facts?

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

Faced with the choice of changing one's mind versus proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone opts for the latter.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Be able to prove God? It would no longer be God. (Pouvoir prouver Dieu ? Ca ne serait plus Dieu)

It was as true… as turnips is. It was as true… as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.

I'll eat my head.

It was as true... as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.

I don't believe there's no sich a person!

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right. In the general experience, everybody has been wrong so often, and it has taken in most instances such a weary while to find out how wrong, that the authority is proved to be fallible. Everybody may sometimes be right; "but that's no rule," as the ghost of Giles Scroggins says in the ballad.

He] should come to the knowledge of the step, as a step taken, and not in the balance of suspense and doubt.

I had a confident expectation that things would come round and be all square.

clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever. It was the