Quotes About Certainty

Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one would lie in his place

Confidence is the greatest friend.

But it remains the case that you know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than you know what is right.

...there was no guilt in his face, no doubt, nothing but the calm of an inviolate self-confidence.

Be always sure you're right then go ahead.

If I could explain a head in a barrel to the King, he thought, I can explain a man in a tanpit to a Bishop. But I'd sooner be more certain of the facts.

You shouldn't be placing hope in our lives, Parvin. That's my point. I don't know the answers of the future, but your confidence and hope need to be in God.

You don't struggle with these questions?""No. But I've always thought my opinion was the right one. It's a small flaw I have.""An American flaw.

The flea that doubts doesn't jump nearly as high

Confidence is providence

I am immortal! I know it! I feel it!

To be confident is to act in faith.

We don't do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right. Ambivalence is French. Certainty is American.

If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions.

When we know what we want to prove we go out and find our facts. They are always there.

Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.

Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.

Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.

We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.

I do not believe in my death.

The annoying thing about being an atheist is that you'll never have the satifaction of saying to believers, 'I told you so.'

The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.

Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal.

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.