Quotes About Certitude

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

It is so. It cannot be otherwise.

I'm always right.

On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.

Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?

Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found? I

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

Vronsky's life was particularly happy in that he had a code of principles, which defined with unfailing certitude what he ought and what he ought not to do. This code of principles covered only a very small circle of contingencies, but then the principles were never doubtful, and Vronsky, as he never went outside that circle, had never had a moment's hesitation about doing what he ought to do.

I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago.

True believers of Scientology seem to know with utmost certainty that they have found the answer to the deepest riddles of all time - they may or may not be right, but that kind of self-belief is very appealing.

Being right is overrated! If someone is saying that they're right about the future, that's a claim only a fool would make.

I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subject of maps I have always been a true believer. It is on the map, therefore it is, and I am.

He was somewhere, he had come back through the vast regions from nowhere; there was the certitude of an infinite sadness at the core of his consciousness, but the sadness was reassuring, because it alone was familiar.

David Baldacci

box. I'm sure of that.

If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and reassert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.

Some things are true whether you believe them or not.

I had done it all right, all the same, all the way it had to be done. It would be right . Now.

Your certitude is in questionable taste, Mr. Tagomi said. It seems to press untowardly.

The heart can know peace but the mind cannot be satisfied; the drive to know, to possess intellectual certitude is doomed to failure.

You think things have to be possible? Things have to be true !

Prove to me that you are right. Prove to me that you are more right than God. Nothing on earth would do it. Because Ryan didn't believe in or care about anything on earth.

If I knew what two and two were – I would say Four!

Singura certitudine: poemul. Singura cuminec?tur?: poemul. Lua?i, mânca?i, acesta este trupul ?i sângele nostru: poemul.