Quotes About Certainty

He who believes is strong he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. He who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

I think lots of things, Denny, and I dismiss nothing. When I know, then I'll act.

I started super young, but when I think about myself at that age - what I thought I knew, and how priggish I was, how certain of things - now I realize that nothing is certain.

The absolutist takes himself to speak to the ages, with the tongue of angels, but the relativist hears only one version among others, the subjectivity of the here and now.

In any given age it is only a few extremists who are right.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

You're certainly not alone in your megalomania. Everyone feels that way-and for good reason. Because it's true!

Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.

After more darkness and silence, I said, "Well, do you believe in the informed decision?" More darkness and silence. "No!" I envy his certainty! He understood that a determined life had its limits. "I had a wonderful life and I had nothing to do with it"—well, now I can say that, too. There is this sense of being on your own path.

he sees, one cannot know enough to trust. To trust is simply to give oneself; the giving is for the future, for which there is no evidence.

And of course Cecelia held some secret doubts about herself; you can't dislike nearly everybody and be quite certain that you have exempted yourself.

We live by the assumption that what's good for us is good for the world. And this is based on the even flimsier assumption that we could know with any certainty what's good for us.

This is the real power of joy, to make us certain that, beneath all grief, the most fundamental of realities is joy itself.

I'm always right.

About nine feet six and I weigh twenty stone, he answered, and almost laughed aloud. And how does it end? It ends with words. Words can kill anything. It ends with cold words; words like fire that stick in the structure and take hold and lick it up, blackening and charring it, bringing it down in smoking ruins. It ends in suspicion of things not done, and in the certainty of things done and remembered. It

If a man doubts everything, then he will attempt nothing. The strong men of this world are the ones who are always certain of their own rightness.

It is quite possible that I may be altogether wrong in this idea. My own impression, however, is, that I am right.

I give you better than proof, gentlemen; I give you my positive opinion.

This is a matter of curiosity; and you have got a woman for your ally. Under such conditions success is certain, sooner or later.

Intolerance is the natural concomitant of strong faith; tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous. Plato

It is only charlatans who are certain. We know nothing of first principles. It is truly extravagant to define God, angels, and minds, and to know precisely why God formed the world, when we do not know why we move our arms at will. Doubt is not a very agreeable state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

It is not merely probable, it is certain that we shall never find a straight line that is not the shortest distance between two points.