Quotes About Certainty

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.

In the end, how much distance lies between the truth and what we believe to be true? Between the things we feel at one time and the things we end up doing?

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer.

In God we trust; all others must bring data.

In God we trust. All others [must] have data.

There are two sorts of people with whom you can never win an argument: those who base their belief on absolute faith, and those who know something by experience.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

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There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.

The religious definition of truth is not that it is universal but that it is absolute.

We have no destiny assigned us: Nothing is certain but the body; we plan To better ourselves; the hospitals alone remind us Of the equality of man.

Protect his house, His anxious house where days are counted From thunderbolt protect, From gradual ruin spreading like a stain; Converting number from vague to certain, Bring joy, bring day of his returning, Lucky with day approaching, with leaning dawn.

And how reliable can any truth be that is got By observing oneself and then just inserting a Not?

We wander on the earth, or err from bed to bed in search of home, and fail, and weep for the lost ages Before Because became As If, or rigid Certainty The Chances Are. The base hear us, and the violent Who long to calm our guilt with murder, and already Have not been slow to turn our wish to their advantage.

It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back

Greyson Chance says it's gold, so it must be gold.

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Our confidence comes from our preparation.

We're prepared, and we've done everything we can to prepare for this moment in time. That's what confidence is all about.

Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.

We don't need self-confidence we need God-confidence

Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts

Confidence is closely linked to how well our perceptions match reality