Quotes About Certitude

There are many degrees of Probable, some nearer Truth than others, in the determining of which lies the chief exercise of our Judgment.

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

You don't believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they're true.

Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.

Who dares To say that he alone has found the truth?

There is faith in every serious doubt, namely, the faith in the truth as such, even if the only truth we can express is our lack of truth.

Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth?

He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth of the thing.

Belief made no difference to the truth.

There is but one indefectibly certain truth , and that is the truth that pyrrhonistic scepticism itself leaves standing, the truth that the present phenomenon of consciousness exists.

We have an idea of truth, invincible to all scepticism.

Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.

With faith, you may get stuck in a very big lie and may lose the truth forever; but with doubt, you can always reach the truth!

"It was as true" said Mr. Barkus "as taxes is. And nothing is truer than them."

Of course, there is no conceivable way of getting by reason from the proposition "I am losing interest in this" to the proposition "This is false.

Facts give way when faith is activated.

I think the truth is black-and-white.

I am right. I'm always right. One time I thought I was wrong, I found out I was right.

Yes, I'm fine. I feel good, actually. Now that I know." "I know what you mean. I remember the time when I decided for good. When I said fuck it, this is what I do.

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.

It wasn't that what first came to mind was always wrong; it was that its existence in your mind led you to feel more certain than you should be that it was correct.

I can't deal in ifs or in hypothetical situations. I only deal in absolutes.

Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude.

I know I'm right," he said. "If you disagree with me, you're wrong.