Quotes about Certitude

Everyone, in his or her own way, struggled to express the baldly obrious fact that the president did not know enough, did not know what he didn't know, did not particularly care, and, to boot, was confident if not serene in his unquestioned certitudes.

In fact, like most things in life that really matter—love, beauty, justice—you can't prove things in history the way you can prove Pythagoras's theorem. But there are lots of things you can be certain of nonetheless.

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it comes to pass, you will believe that I am He.

But he must ask in faith, without doubting, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.

I do not preach doubtingly, for I do not live doubtingly.

You don't need faith to walk on the riverbank, you need faith to walk on water.

From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.

It is certain because it is impossible

Faith in the widest sense of the word, is assent to the truth, or the persuasion of the mind that a thing is true.

Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found? I

You must be able to say, with reasonable certainty, I understand, before you can say any one of the following things: I agree, or I disagree, or I suspend Judgment.