Quotes About Certitude

Ambiguity supposes eventual resolution of itself whereas certitude implies further ambiguity.

You can't prove that something doesn't exist. You can only prove that something does exist.

... what you need more than anything in life is a definite position.

A thousand things can prove me right and one can prove me wrong.

As he once famously said, "I'm not always right, but I'm never wrong.

Not doubt, CERTAINTY is what drives one insane

Only a person of deep faith can afford the luxury of skepticism.

On a very long and very high wire, I will not hope to not be blown off by high winds. I will have the certitude that such could not happen.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

There is no higher authority.

Assertion as comfort, certain as death.

Doubt anything you like,' said the tyger, fi tv rand proud. 'Doubt the clouds in the sky, the movements of the tide, or the turning of this world around its sun. But never, ever doubt me.

The religious form of conventional wisdom with its excessive certitude blinds us to the mystery and wonder of life.

It is a life of deep commitment and gentle certitude. Deep commitment, because it involves one's whole being. Gentle certitude, because it is gentle, soft, regarding particular verbal formulations of Christianity, including precise doctrinal statements. These are always human products. They are to be valued as such and to be reformulated when necessary. Depth of commitment and dogmatic certainty about a particular set of beliefs are not the same thing.

It must have been then that I began to lose faith in reasonable argument as the sole measure of truth.

I love to be, and so often am, right.

Malcolm doesn't know everything," he said shortly. Will couldn't help grinning. "And you do?" "Of course I do," Halt replied. " That's a well-known fact.

Why do I always have to be right?

en el oficio de las armas, y por si acaso, la duda debe tratarse como si fuera certeza.

I look for scripts that give me a gut feeling that this is going to work.

I do not greatly care whether I have been right or wrong on any point, but I care a good deal about knowing which of the two I have been.

When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.