#Certainty Quotes

“Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.”

“Demand me nothing: what you know, you know.”

“Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shalldie.”

“Doubting things go ill often hurts moreThan to be sure they do; for certaintiesEither are past remedies, or, timely knowing,The remedy then born.”

“We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.”

“If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don't abide in borrowed certainty. There is no real certainty until you burn; if you wish for this, sit down in the fire.”

“...one cannot lodge in if.”

“Feed and strengthen your body. Fear is physical. When you lift weights or go for a sprint, that energy flows back into your body and restores you to certainty.”

“Some people get certainty by working harder and saying I'm going to master something. Some people get certainty by lowering their expectations, going 'it will never work. And they lose their dreams, but they get their needs. The needs are not like goals. They're not like belief systems that are built into you.”

“Your imagination is ten times more potent than your willpower. Unleashed, it provides a sense of certainty and tenacious vision that goes far beyond any limitation of the past.”

“If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.”

“Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?”

“If you look around the world and I can tell you right now that the majority of the planet is focused on certainty and significance. And those two absolutely guarantee unhappiness. Because if you're driven by significance, it doesn't matter what you achieve, it's never enough.”

“But O, sick children of the world,Of all the many changing thingsIn dreary dancing past us whirled,To the cracked tune that Chronos sings,Words alone are certain good.”

“Words alone are certain good.”

“If you believe you are right, or you believe you are wrong, you're right. Whenever you are certain about it, you will support it. Remember that.”

“If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you need very little in the way of a margin of safety.”

“You want to be a hero? Learn to create certainty in the face of fear.”

“The person with the most certainty in a given situation will influence the other.”

“Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.”

“When two people meet, as long as there is any form of rapport maintained, the person with the most certainty will eventually influence ther other person.”

“If you are driven by certainty you can't grow. If you are driven by certainty if somebody messes with you, you can get very intense, even violent, depending upon the person's personality.”

“Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.”

“Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”

“What can we say with certainty?”

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”

“People have a need for certainty - and that need for certainty is in every human being, certainty that you can avoid pain, certainty that you can at least be comfortable. It's a survival instinct.”

“Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.”

“Nothing was or is farther from my intentions, than to enlist myself as the champion of a fixed opinion, where I have only expressed doubt.”

“Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying”

“The person who is motivated by necessity is interested in what's known and what's secure. The person who is motivated by possibility is equally interested in what's not known. He wants to know what can evolve, what opportunities might develop.”

“The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.”

“To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.”

“...the reason for [this age's] anxiety and unrest is because in one direction, 'truth' increases in scope and quantity - via science and technology - while in the other, certainty and confidence steadily decline. Our age is a master in developing truths while being wholly indifferent to certitude. It lacks confidence in the good.”

“When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.”

“You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while other people are given wings on freer shoulders, people who have not worn themselves out with research, nor spent a decade and more reflecting on these questions.”

“What difference, if you are mistaken? For if I am mistaken, I am. For he who is not, assuredly cannot be mistaken; and therefore I am, if I am mistaken. Therefore because I am if I am mistaken, how am I mistaken that I am, when it is sure that I am, if I am mistaken.”

“Everyone who observes himself doubting observes a truth, and about that which he observes he is certain; therefore he is certain about a truth. Everyone therefore who doubts whether truth exists has in himself a truth on which not to doubt.... Hence one who can doubt at all ought not to doubt the existence of truth.”

“Upon consideration of the central question of the moon's toughness there can be little doubt. It is hella tough.”

“They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.”

“I do not see why I should e’er turn back, Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who should miss me here And long to know if still I held them dear. They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true.”

“If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't.”

“It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.”

“Love is many things. It is varied. One thing love is not, is unsure.”

“The only certainties in life are death and taxes.”

“For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.”

“Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which lead to eternal quackery.”

“Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.”

“He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.”

“We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul.”