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Quotes About Certainty

I don't have doubts that Everton is a big club.
~ Marco Silva
Clinging to science was, when you got right down to it, just a god of a different flavor.
~ Ilsa J. Bick
Alles, woran man glaubt, beginnt zu existieren.
~ Unknown
The thinking few is right. But not always.
~ Unknown
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
~ Immanuel Kant
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.
~ Immanuel Kant
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
~ Immanuel Kant
Without love--what are we, what have we? Throughout the world, absolute certainty, righteousness, and outrage have completely displaced love and compassion. So, although we all know that we are right, where are we without love?
~ Unknown
Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.
~ Imre Lakatos
not as if they won't know the truth soon
~ Inglath Cooper
Better to live in doubt than to die in certainty.
~ Ira Levin
promise you, Jules. Would I let you down?
~ Iris Johansen
certainly not
~ Iris Johansen
A lock is better than suspicion..
~ Unknown
Was man glaubt, gibt es.
~ Unknown
We did not evolve by precautionary living, nor by hanging back for lack or certainty.
~ Unknown
You cannot be firmly certain about anything. You can only have enough courage and strength to do what you consider to be right. Maybe it turns out that was wrong, but still you would have done his, and it is most important.
~ Irving Stone
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
~ Isaac Newton
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty, & leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
~ Isaac Newton
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age it is much better to do a little with certainty and leave the rest for others who come after you
~ Isaac Newton
Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.
~ Isaac Watts
Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
~ Isaac Watts
The common factor in all these manifestations of intuition is a sort of ski jump—a soaring take-off from the known and established, ending in a swooping arrival at an advanced point, with the intervening steps apparently left out. Those steps are not really left out, of course; they are performed in and by the unconscious, often with extraordinary speed, and the result of the unconscious processes pops into the conscious mind with an effect of inspiration and certainty.
~ Isabel Briggs Myers
Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.
~ Isabelle Adjani