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Quotes About Certainty

Everything was so broken, but it would heal. Saxonia will heal. Hollownot will heal. Everything will heal.I was broken. I will heal.It is certainty that destroys the souls of men.
~ J.M. McDermott, Straggletaggle
Benny pushed a slow breath through his teeth. "Is it so terrible to believe in something?
~ Melanie Crowder, A Nearer Moon
The world, I soon learned, held a different estimate: and I make no doubt, the world is very right in its view, yet believe also that I am not quite wrong in mine.
~ Charlotte Brontë, Villette
I wouldn't have wished for something hoping that I wouldn't get it. I wouldn't have wished for it knowing that I'd get it
~ Prabhukrishna M
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
~ Clint Eastwood
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.
~ Martin Luther
Well, evolution's just a theory.' And, I'm thinking to myself, 'Well, thank goodness gravity's a law.'
~ Marc Maron
Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.
~ Dennis Miller
Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?
~ Stephen Colbert
Speed eliminates all doubt. Am I smart enough? Will people like me? Do I really look all right in this plastic jumpsuit?
~ David Sedaris
When you're certain you cannot be fooled, you become easy to fool.
~ Edward Teller
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.
~ Moliere
Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.
~ George Carlin
Even though I was fairly certain God wasn't Ted Bundy, I kept an open mind, since this phone call was getting a bit confusing.
~ Scott Buckel
What'd you think would happen when you died? That the prophecy would just be over and we'd all be like, oops, guess we got that one wrong?
~ H.M. Ward, Torn
Lothaire is very much alive.""You swear?""Often. Though not as much as foul-mouthed Regin. I try not to in front of Bertil." She petted the bat."I meant—will Lothaire live?""He will.
~ Kresley Cole, Lothaire
The reason God never fails is because he fears to fail
~ adelaja precious
You've got an answer for everything... It's one of the side effects of being right all the time.
~ Rachel Spangler, Close to Home
Mankind's biggest blunder, ignorance. Mankind's second, infallible.
~ M.T. Dismuke
Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.
~ Eric Temple Bell
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
~ Bertrand Russell
Katie smiled and turned away, knowing it wasn't an illusion or a figment of her imagination. She knew what she saw. She knew what she believed.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Your imagination is ten times more potent than your willpower. Unleashed, it provides a sense of certainty and tenacious vision that goes far beyond any limitation of the past.
~ Tony Robbins