Quotes About Certainty

It is either easy or impossible.

Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.

Art is always of fixed, determined solutions - not things that might as well be different.

Art upsets science reassures.

Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.

Terrorism is based on two major pillars: One is injustice, and the other is a certainty of attitude, the notion that their version of the story is the correct one.

An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.

We all make basic assumptions about things in life, but sometimes those assumptions are WRONG. We must never trust in what we assume, only in what we KNOW.

Doubt finds its way into all men's hearts.

If the Old Man said something was so, then it probably was, because he was one of these cautious babies who'll look out the window at a cloudburst and say, It seems to be raining, on the off-chance that somebody's pouring water off the roof.

A promise is like the earth underneath us. It must be solid. How can we walk, and run, and live and laugh, when we can't count on the ground beneath us. And so it is with promises. They keep us upright. They hold up everyone and everything

When in doubt, say nothing. When not in doubt, double down on that advice.

It is more than a mere rule, for rules can be changed. It is truth.

I like to verify things independently. It's not like any of us are infallible.

David Baldacci

When ind out, say nothing. When not in doubt, double down on that advice.

Your problem is you don't believe in anything, Lou. And your problem is you believe in everything

box. I'm sure of that.

We can't just accept it – we must doubt it. For by doubting we come to inquiry, and from inquiry we come to the truth.

Other generations perceived a plethora of swords hanging over their heads. But generally what they feared were shadows, for neither they nor their gods could actually end the world. Fate might reap an individual, a family, or even a whole nation, but not the entire world. Not then. We, in the mid-twenty-first century, are the first to look up at a sword we ourselves forged, and know, with absolute certainty, it is real...

Absolutes do not exist in this universe.

Trust me. - Silk

There are things we know for certain. Oh? Name one. The sun's going to come up tomorrow morning. Why? It always has. Does that really mean that it always will? A faint look of consternation crossed her face. It will , won't it? Probably, but we can't be absolutely certain. Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything, Pol. That's what education's all about.

logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.