Quotes About Certitude

She sure as shootin' hoped that proved to be true.

it wasn't good to dwell on maybes. Maybes could be twisted into things that never really existed. For

We can move gradually from total confusion, dominated by hatred and other mental poisons, to an intermediate stage of serenity, altruistic joy, and self-mastery before finally arriving at enlightenment, which will give us a true vision of phenomena's ultimate nature. At that point, knowledge functions with an immediate certitude that transcends discursive thought.

I don't need faith.

Sincerity is the certitude that we speak the truth (and who can be certain of that?), but there are many kinds of honesty, and they do not always agree with one another.

There's nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.

Everyone, in his or her own way, struggled to express the baldly obvious fact that the president did not know enough, did not know what he didn't know, did not particularly care, and, to boot, was confident if not serene in his unquestioned certitudes. There was now a fair amount of back-of-the-classroom giggling about who had called Trump what.

Everyone, in his or her own way, struggled to express the baldly obrious fact that the president did not know enough, did not know what he didn't know, did not particularly care, and, to boot, was confident if not serene in his unquestioned certitudes.

What do I believe? I believe that two and two make four, Sganarelle, and that four and four are eight.

You must be able to say, with reasonable certainty, "I understand," before you can say "I agree," or "I disagree," or "I suspend judgment.

In fact, like most things in life that really matter—love, beauty, justice—you can't prove things in history the way you can prove Pythagoras's theorem. But there are lots of things you can be certain of nonetheless.

Faith does not question — Faith knows.

I'd say, be careful what you wish for; certitude is seldom good for creativity.

Mother and daughter were both so rarely wrong they thought they could never be.

At times truth may not seem probable.

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

Faith with proof is no faith at all.

There can be many opinions on a thing, but there is only one truth.

You can´t prove nonexistence".

es imposible que los dos estén en lo cierto. Sí es posible, en cambio, que los dos estén en un error

Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.

Only one way to be sure.