Quotes about Certainty
Death is a mighty, universal truth.
- Charles Dickens
There is faith in every serious doubt, namely, the faith in the truth as such, even if the only truth we can express is our lack of truth.
- Paul Tillich
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
- GK Chesterton
Through doubt we arrive at the truth.
- Cicero
There is but one indefectibly certain truth , and that is the truth that pyrrhonistic scepticism itself leaves standing, the truth that the present phenomenon of consciousness exists.
- William James
No one actually lives as if there is no objective truth.
- Craig Blomberg
Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.
- Herman Melville
The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain.
- Herman Melville
Truth resides where there is faith.
- Paulo Coelho
'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth
- William James
They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true.
- Robert Frost