Quotes About Certainty

Although we often use the word "prove" in everyday life, strictly speaking, NOTHING CAN BE PROVED. This is simply because NO amount of evidence is sufficient – there's always the possibility of new, conflicting, evidence.

As soon as you start to doubt your own existence, the act of doubting proves that you exist as a thinking thing. This

Even if I believe my opinion to be true, and am highly confident about its truth, unless it is 'fully, frequently and fearlessly' discussed, I will end up holding it as a dead dogma, a formulaic and unthinking response.

La confianza refleja la contingencia. La esperanza elimina la contingencia.

Do not tempt fate by saying never. Never again this, never again that—for you can never be sure of never and that's the only thing you can be sure of.

Learn to live without self-concern. For this you must know your own true being as indomitable, fearless, ever victorious. Once you know with absolute certainty that nothing can trouble you, you come to disregard your desires and fears, concepts and ideas and live by truth alone.

Whether you believe you're suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome or that 9/11 was an inside job, the World Wide Web exists to tell you you're right. You are always right.

As with everything else about God, where you come down on the issue revolves around faith.

It didn't feel good, but on the other hand, it felt just right.

Niemand weiß wirklich genug um ein Pessimist zu sein.

For Du Bois, there was no such thing as an a priori wrong conclusion; there was only a conclusion proven wrong.

One who claims to be a skeptic of one set of beliefs is actually a true believer in another set of beliefs.

Contrary to what is being taught in many public schools, truth is not relative but absolute. If something is true, it's true for all people, at all times, in all places.

As we look at the evidence in the ensuing chapters, we'll see that conclusions such as "God exists" and "the Bible is true" are certain beyond reasonable doubt.Therefore, it takes a lot more faith to be a non-Christian than it does to be a Christian.

The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity.

As nothing is certain or permanent in the world, nothing either real or unreal, the secret of wisdom is detachment without withdrawal. All goals and aims may cheat us, but if we run away from them we shall find ourselves bumping into them.

Anyone measuring his mind against an external reality has to fall back on an axiom of faith.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Stupid faith was good. Thinking and questioning were bad.

I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

I believe that people believe what they believe they believe.

There are moments in your life when you feel the weight of your stupidity as an unbearable thing. You hardly believe that the thoughts you've had and the beliefs you've held are actually your own, yet they have been, and you know, with the full certainty of religious conviction, that you are flawed in a deep and terrible way.

It feels like we're holding on to something because we want to believe it,

In a certain sense this was true, and truth is always true in a certain sense;