Quotes About Certitude

The argument goes something like this: 'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

But if I am right," thought Poirot, "and after all, it is natural to me to be right

One man in a thousand can see the moons of Jupiter. Because the other nine hundred and ninety-nine can't see them there's no reason to doubt that the moons of Jupiter exist, and certainly no reason for calling the thousandth man a lunatic.

I don't think. I know.

not for any consideration! You can be quite sure of that.

If a man will begin with certainties, he will end in doubts," said Francis Bacon, "but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

The reply comes as a current of awareness in the Heart, fitful at first and only achieved by intense effort, but gradually increasing in power and constancy, becoming more spontaneous, acting as a check on thoughts and actions, undermining the ego, until finally the ego disappears and the certitude of pure Consciousness remains.

It'll be a lot of trouble," Dick McDonald objected. "Who could we get to open them for us?" I sat there feeling a sense of certitude begin to envelope me. Then I leaned forward and said, "Well, what about me?

Only the madman is absolutely sure.

I like to bet on as close to a sure thing as you can find.

It is difficult to predict technology more than 10 years out with any certitude, but what I observe is that change and innovation happens earlier and faster than we expect. We are constantly surprised at what technology can do.

What does it mean to believe rather than to know? To surrender to something that's not fact but faith?

When people say they are atheists they don't mean they can prove that there are no gods. Strictly speaking, it's impossible to prove that something does not exist. We don't positively know there are no gods

These days he relied on the increasingly fragile assumption that what he said was right, and what was right was what he said.

Be sure you're not completely wrong, then go ahead.

don't believe 2+2=4. I know it. I am certain of

You sure? Sure as two fists can be.

Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.

...and it is a serious matter to destroy a man's faith without replacing it.

Having the certitude of a succession of days... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me.

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

I think nothing is good, I really think it is.

Oh yes. I am right until I'm proved wrong.

Alles wat geen natuurwet is, is dogma.