Quotes About Certainty

Say, as Austin in another case, 'Errare possum, hæreticus esse nolo—I may err, but I am re solved not to be a heretic.

Your clients are thin with the worms of worry, skinny from the scares inside them. Fatten them on certainty.

a logical man must behave in a crisis as if his calculated risk were indeed a certainty Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Although the truth exists objectively and independently of us, we can never be absolutely certain we grasp it.

The concrete man has but one interest—to be right. That to him is the art of all arts, and all means are fair which help him to it.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

In the absence of proof, you believe.

Few things were so sure and simple that they could be taken at face value.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

I don't want you to say anything. I want you to listen. You know, being confident isn't the same as being right.

There are truths, I know with all certainty, that I will never grasp, but that doesn't make them any less true.

With all the world's uncertainties and injustices, with all the doubt that piles around us like dead leaves in an autumn storm, you remain so sure of your truths. It must be comforting to be so sure.

Had I been wrong, this would still have been the honorable thing to do. I am very glad, however, to find out that I was right.

The simplicity of this case offends me. It's so neat, it's like a preconception. One thing you can be sure about any preconception. It's wrong. If there's a God and he tried to preconceive the world, he got it wrong.

Like Darwin's theory of evolution, Big Bang cosmology has undergone that curious social process in which a scientific theory is promoted to a secular myth. The two theories serve as points of certainty in an intellectual culture that is otherwise disposed to give the benefit of the doubt to doubt itself.

If everyone's perspective is equally right, she warned her husband, then there is no absolute right, and everything goes. It could leave you without bearings, adrift and lost.

The moment you know you know you know.

If you trust yourself, any choice you make will be correct. If you do not trust yourself, anything you do will be wrong. - Kung Fu, The Legend Continues -

No scientific theory can claim absolutely certainty.

I leave this rule for others when I'm dead,Be always sure you're right—then go ahead.

Be sure that you are right, and then go ahead.

Maker sure you're right, then go ahead.

be always sure you're right, THEN GO AHEAD!

To have faith is to refuse to doubt. The phrase "not doubt" is not intended to describe an especially strong faith, a faith strong enough to see miracles, as opposed to a weak faith that is haunted by doubt and cannot see miracles. Rather, eschewing doubt is the very definition of faith; a faith willing to ask for miracles, however tentatively, is the faith that will one day see miracles.