Thomas Huxley Quotes

There's a gray area there that I'm satisfied is not gray.

I am black or white, I'll never be grey in my life.

Doubt is long-winded. Certainty is brief.

I know where my priorities lie.

So it was a hard decision but I know it is the right one.

You can't always see both sides of the story. Eventually, you have to pick a side and stick with it. No more equivocating. You have to commit.

You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

I know what I don't want.

I'm a rather decisive type.

I don't deal with hypotheticals.

I can't deal in ifs or in hypothetical situations. I only deal in absolutes.

When we really sit back with a smile on our face is when we run into a situation we can understand, where the facts are ascertainable and clear, and the course of action obvious.

The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.

What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.

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

Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing.

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don't trust ambiguity. John Wayne

Trust is faith that has become absolute, approved, and accomplished. When all is said and done, there is a sort of risk in faith and its exercise. But trust is firm belief; it is faith in full bloom. Trust is a conscious act, a fact of which we are aware.

I'm very clear about what I believe.

If your judgement is clouded, you must be carrying too many things which are being a burden to you.

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.