Quotes About Certainty

Our desire for certainty, our need to be right, and our tendency to miss the point have conspired to keep Christians from experiencing unity, and instead have led to endless divisions within the Christian faith.

Satisfaction is no more the solution to frustration than certainty is the solution to skepticism.

This is an absence of evidence, which we scientists like to remind people is not the same as evidence of absence.

have fallen into the tempting trap of mistaking absence of evidence for evidence of absence.

telling. I thought I knew this

There is no possibility I have made a mistake. Everything that happens as a result of my actions is one of calculation and certainty. Everything happening is exactly what I predicted.

I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

It's peaceful for people to know how their lives are going to be, pretty much.

I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true.

What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt.

I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.

Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees.

I'm trying not to put myself into anything I'm not 100 percent confident about.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

When I've known something is right, the actual doing of it is not scary. It's like being onstage or performing. After it and before it, there might be a lot of fear, but the act of it is never scary for me.

Of course I see a future with Varun. I don't get into things if they are not permanent at all.

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

It's the easiest thing in the world to assume that what seems so obvious at one moment in time is a hard, perpetual fact of life.

Sire, I have no need of that hypothesis.

He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.

Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là

Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse.

Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.