Quotes About Certainty

Gentlemen and ladies are sure of their ground. They pretend to nothing that they are not.

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

The man that I married is the man I knew I was going to marry on the third date.

I am a daylight atheist.

That decision, for me, was almost certainly definitely wrong.

I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.

Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude.

I'm not a big believer in second-guessing decisions.

I sometimes should be more decisive.

I knew I wanted to marry Liz the day I met her. Deep down I knew she was The One.

We haven't had to defend anything to anybody.

I think expectations are sometimes dangerous things. I think the only thing you can be sure of is that it won't go to plan. I think that's the only thing that's definite.

I like definitive things.

When I come to a design decision, people know that is that.

When you've been living in hope for a long time as I have, suddenly you realize that certainty is far more desirable than hope.

Every time you are in a relationship, you hope that this is the one. However, when you meet the person you are destined to be with, you don't hope, you just know that he is the one.

The thing the Buddhists and the Sufis have in common is a belief that religious certainties are destructive.

No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.

There's a lot in Scientology that develops confidence because there is peace, I think, that I've gotten just to know that what I do know, I do know.

If you're about to get a tat, make sure you're 110% sure it's what you want. If you're getting it in a different language make sure it is exactly what you want it to be because there is no going back.

I am very good at remembering music and am absolutely certain that I never heard 'Taurus' until 2014.

The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let's extend the tax - the existing tax cuts. And then let's give some more tax breaks to small businesses and large. And then maybe the American people will have some confidence.

The Bush tax cuts, they ought to be made permanent in my mind so there is certainty out there.