Quotes About Certainty

I always knew I would adopt. Always.

I'm not going to take a show unless I'm not sure I can do it. You have to have that sort of adrenaline.

Arguing is fun when you think you have all the answers.

Ce qui rend les amitiés indissolubles et double leur charme, est un sentiment qui manque à l'amour, la certitude.

Pascal said that "the doubt of God implies belief in God.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

And the real anchor is not hope but faith — even if it be only somebody else's faith.

Prognostics do not always prove prophecies—at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

Too much certainty is a miserable thing, while the unknowable has a pristine beauty and a wonder with no end.

The believed gospel saves; but it is the believed promise that assures us of this salvation.

I was innocent but certain, now I'm wiser but unsure.

In the Congress of the United States, Cromwell had known a good many men who were possessed of absolute certainty, and this he feared so much that he felt the only real and enduring evil on the face of the earth was unbending certainty, unshakable orthodoxy.

You seem damn sure of yourself for a man your age?" "I am as old as I can be at my age. I don't know very much, but I know the water.

Faith wasn't a mystery to him; the mystery to him was holding on to faith. He

you can't have belief without intolerance.

To avoid confusion, let me make an important distinction: Practically all philosophers these days are fallibilists. That is, they recognize that even our best-supported theories and factual claims are fallible and may turn out to be wrong—as, indeed, they so often have in the past. But fallibilism does not entail relativism

An accurate opinion on valuation, loosely held, will be of limited help. An incorrect opinion on valuation, strongly held, is far worse. This one statement shows how hard it is to get it all right

unrelenting certainty.

I may be proven wrong, but I may be proven right.

Well, that obviously wasn't good enough. Not by a long shot. Saying period at the end of something doesn't make it incontrovertible.

Certainty is the enemy of reason and of reasonableness.

As knowledge increases, the verdict of yesterday must be reversed today, and in the long run the most positive authority is the least to be trusted.

When, indeed, is a thing proven? Only when an individual has accumulated in his own consciousness enough observations, impressions, reasonings and feelings to satisfy him personally that it is so. The same evidence which convinces one expert may leave another completely unsatisfied.

A profunda ignorância é o que inspira o tom dogmático". La Bruyère