Certainty Quotes

“A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave no room for a theory of probabilities.”

“The certainty of the conclusions is given by the sole fact that the axiomatic method is used.”

“Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.”

“The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.”

“We must know. We will know.”

“Every mathematical problem must be solvable. We are convinced of that. After all, one of the greatest things about mathematics is its certainty.”

“Perhaps it is good to have validations and no doubts.”

“If you have two guys on a stage and one says, 'I have a solution,' and the other says, 'I'm not so sure,' the guy who says, 'I'm not so sure' will always lose.”

“Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.”

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

“It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.”

“I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.”

“The only shots you can be sure of are those you've already had.”

“Every goal I score, I know it's a goal. There is no doubt.”

“The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.”

“You can take that to the bank.”

“I believe that ideas such as absolute certainty, absolute exactness, final truth, etc. are figments of the imagination which should not be admissible in any field of science.”

“It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.”

“The worst tyrants are those who are convinced of their own rectitude.”

“The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty.”