Quotes About Certainty

Reason is an action of the mind knowledge is a possession of the mind but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.

In an infinity of worlds, anything is not only possible, it's mandatory .

And are you unquestionably certain your haecceity is defined by your moniker?

To misquote Mark Twain: It isn't what we don't know that gets us into trouble. It's what we know for sure that just isn't so.

Michael Robotham

It isn't what we don't know that gets us into trouble. It's what we know for sure that just isn't so.

God is about belief and faith. It is not about proving there is a God, for there is no proof. What proof can there be?

is that most dangerous of foes: he is absolutely confident that what he is doing is right.

But what science cannot understand, it dismisses.

When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together. —ISAAC ASIMOV, THE RELATIVITY OF WRONG, 1989

The belief that all knowledge is culturally determined and therefore lacks certainty is largely the product of an uncertain cultural milieu.

My mind on this subject is quite made up, and, having the testimony of my own senses to rely upon, I prefer to abide by it.

everything was obvious in retrospect. They even had a name for it: "hindsight bias." It referred to the difficulty of remembering how little you knew at the time, how uncertain things were, before they all played out. Even wildly contingent events looked inevitable in retrospect. But they weren't. And it's actually psychologically difficult to imagine not knowing back then what you know now.

you either are or aren't

Faith, he had learned that night in front of the flickering television, was most glorious when it was most untouched by reason.

How do you really know if anyone loves you?

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous. Proverb

As scientists and other logically minded people often point out, absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.

on the most basic level, Trump just did not, as Spicer later put it, give a fuck. You could tell him whatever you wanted, but he knew what he knew, and if what you said contradicted what he knew, he simply didn't believe you.

Trump just did not, as Spicer later put it, give a fuck. You could tell him whatever you wanted, but he knew what he knew, and if what you said contradicted what he knew, he simply didn't believe you.

You could tell him whatever you wanted, but he knew what he knew, and if what you said contradicted what he knew, he simply didn't believe you.

the more doubts gathered around Flynn, the more certain the president became that Flynn was his all-important ally.

If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.