Certainty Quotes

Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded...

He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wonderi...

I remember, in no particular order:—a shiny inner wrist;—steam rising from a wet sink as a hot fryin...

I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.

At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.

If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting...

...but the loss of a memory, like the omission of a phrase during reading, rather than making for un...

Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagina...

Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.

In the presence of Esch, values have hidden their faces. Order, loyalty, sacrifice—he cherishes all ...

You’ve got to be sure of yourself beforeYou can ever win a prize.

It's okay not to know all the answers. It's better to admit our ignorance than to believe answers th...

From the house of unbeliefto true religionis a single breath;From the world of doubtto certaintyis a...

My compulsive thoughts aren't even thoughts, they're absolute certainties and obeying them isn't a c...

We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as th...

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

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

A half truth like half a brick is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries...

...Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mount...

If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know whe...

I don’t know what to do,” he said. “No harm in that. I’ve never known what to do,” said Rincewind wi...

From whomsoever one hears anything, it is wisdom to understand the true import of it.

Anyone who takes a decided line in certain matters, is sure to lead all the rest.

Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is.

I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to su...

I mean that if you are not absolutely sure of a thing, it is so difficult to commit yourself to a de...

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how c...

I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am...

An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the ...

Nobody knows the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change.

One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you...

The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.

Roark spoke quietly. He was the only man in the room who felt certain of his own words.

I remember laughing at that moment, and I remember my son frowning at me in puzzlement. What I remem...

What men want is not knowledge but certainty.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and...

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long...

I'm comfortable with the unknown -- that's the point of science. There are places out there, billion...

But at that moment she had known, with a certainty she would never feel about anything else in her l...

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not th...

I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.

Whatever doubt might rise, he knew that he was right. But the rightness was an intellectual rightnes...

Of all sciences there is none, where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behoove...

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin wit...

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behoove...

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin wit...

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behoove...

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin wit...

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behoove...

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin wit...

There are no facts only interpretations.

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he...

My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some...

The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it...