Unquestionable Certainty Quotes

What can we say with certainty?

There is no man more dangerous than one who does not doubt his own rightness.

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, yes, gravity is real! I will have faith! I will be strong! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down. down. Amen! If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about it.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

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

When you're confident about something, people can't bully you about it.

The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress.

I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

The truth, it needs no proof. Either it is or it isn't.

In their leaders, advisers, and experts, people much prefer overconfidence, total certainty, to any kind of doubt.

You might question a winkle - a feeling that came to you right out of the blue - but you didn’t question knowing.