Quotes About Certitude

The rat is always right.

something may be fully accepted out of faith, yet it may be empty, hollow, and false; but something else may not be fully accepted out of faith, yet it may be factual, true, and unmistaken.

The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them." ( The Decider , July 21, 2007)

Who has that perfect faith and trust? Only such a person with that faith and trust can be enlightened.

Trust me," he said. "I know what I'm doing... or at least" -- he strolled confidently to the door -- "Felix does.

"It was as true " said Mr. Barkis ... "as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them."

Some things are true whether you believe in them or not.

I never said it was possible. I only said it was true.

Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy.

Of that there is no manner of doubt—No probable, possible shadow of doubt—No possible doubt whatever.

What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

They could not all be right. At least, some had to be more right than others. Or less wrong.

Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?

tener fe, es decir, tener una convicción que no puede ser debilitada por la evidencia contraria.

Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so, and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.

knowing something is not believing...

He knew it the way he knew the earth was round and her eyes were blue and that two plus two would always always be four.

Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts.

No te instales en la duda.

Is there anyone that knows the absolute truth?

I believed in the faith of faith without acknowledging his quality of being an absolute truth.

One must seek another certitude beyond the world, beyond the homeland; one must refuse to join the chorus of the demoniacal and create one's own homeland, one's own world, outside the present time.

If you feel it to be true, it is.