Quotes About Certainty

Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.

somebody's mouth without a detour of any kind." She's looking at me when she says it, though. It isn't that I don't like fried rabbit. Like it fine. I just don't want to bite down on buckshot, is all, and I'm checking each piece. "I looked that rabbit over good, Marty, and you won't find any buckshot in that

In the end, only the truth will survive.

in the course of the growth of research; so that, when they reach the end of their analyses they cannot tell with any certainty whether the structure they have reached is the essence of the matter they are studying, or the reflection of their own thought.

But Above all things truth beareth away the victory

My opinion is: Truth must be absolute and that you Mr. Protagoras, are absolutely in error. Since this is indeed my opinion, then you must concede that it is true according to your philosophy.

for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know.

En efecto, atenienses, temer la muerte no es otra cosa que creer ser sabio sin serlo, pues es creer que uno sabe lo que no sabe. Pues nadie conoce la muerte, ni siquiera si es, precisamente, el mayor de todos los bienes para el hombre, pero la temen como si supieran con certeza que es el mayor de los males.

In the course of the argument Socrates remarks that the controversial nature of morals and religion arises out of the difficulty of verifying them.

Porque temer la muerte, atenienses, no es otra cosa que creerse sabio sin serlo, y creer conocer lo que no se sabe. En efecto, nadie conoce la muerte, ni sabe si es el mayor de los bienes para el hombre. Sin embargo, se la teme, como si se supiese con certeza que es el mayor de todos los males. ¡Ah! ¿No es una ignorancia vergonzante creer conocer una cosa que no se conoce?

Por lo mismo yo no temeré ni huiré nunca de males que no conozco y que son quizá verdaderos bienes; pero temeré y huiré siempre de males que sé con certeza que son verdaderos males.

él cree saberlo aunque no sepa nada, y yo, no sabiendo nada, creo no saber.

I will never fear or avoid a possible good rather than a certain evil.

What I do not know, I don't think I do.

Well, although I do not suppose that either of us knows anything really beautiful and good, I am better off than he is,— for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know.

Wherefore, O judges, be of good cheer about death, and know of a certainty, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Making sense of God's call is not a prerequisite for following it. His Word and His promises are enough.

But that didn't happen. Somehow, he was standing on solid ground that looked anything but solid.

God with an as-is sticker on Him. No return policy.

Evan heard the creature's voice in his head. Kind of like his own, but different somehow. Deeper. More certain of itself. Stay on the trail. Don't look back, it said. So Evan didn't.

We must take God with an as-is sticker on Him. No return policy.

Set aside your conviction," Moënghus said, "for the feeling of certainty is no more a marker of truth than the feeling of will is a marker of freedom. Deceived men always think themselves certain, just as they always think themselves free. This is simply what it means to be deceived.

more than anything, it was ignorance that delivered conviction beyond the pale of disputation. Ignorance of questions. Ignorance of alternatives. No tyranny was so complete as blindness.

Conviction, no matter how narcotic its depth, simply did not make true.