Quotes About Certainty

It ain't the things you don't know what gets you into trouble it's the things you know for sure what ain't so.

Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility.

It is the job of leaders to eliminate uncertainty.

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

We have something more reliable than a poll that changes everyday.

The word "conviction" means to expose.

Certitude is not the test of certainty.

More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.

A scientist is never certain. ... We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning.

You think you KNOW when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.

Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary.

One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.

If I'm wrong about God then I wasted my life. If you're wrong about God then you wasted your eternity.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?

I've gone through most of my life not believing anything. Either I know or I don't know, or I think.

Fear and faith have something in common. They both ask us to believe in something we cannot see.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

I have unshakeable faith in the perfect outcome of every situation in my life, for God is in absolute control.

wanted—I needed—to know that I had indeed seen him, not some apparition conjured up by the Crawler, and I clutched at anything that would help me believe that. What convinced me the most wasn't the photograph—it was the sample the anthropologist had taken from the edge of the Crawler, the sample that had proven to be human brain tissue.

Once the questions snuck in, whatever had been certain became uncertain. Questions opened the way for doubt.

What's wrong with asking questions?" "Nothing." Everything. Once the questions snuck in, whatever had been certain became uncertain. Questions opened the way for doubt. His father had told him that. "Don't let them ask questions. You're already giving them the answers, even if they don't know it.

I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, yes. Promises, no.

Faith is the only reasonable response to the truth.