Quotes about Certainty
It's not what we don't know that gets us in trouble. It's what we know for sure just ain't so.
- Mark Twain
While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Tell us the truth, for there lies your only hope of safety.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
The actual facts of morality are too much on my side for me to fear that my theory can ever be replaced or upset by any other.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
To fear to face an issue to believe that the worst is true. --Atlas Shrugged
- Ayn Rand
faith is the subsistance of things not seene;
- Jonathan Edwards
What made him stand out, to some as an inspiration, to others as an oddity, and to others as an offense, was that he did not hope that God heard his prayers, but knew it.
- Eric Metaxas
if it be a work of grace, it cannot fail.
- Eric Metaxas
Even if you were to knock my head off, God would still exist.
- Eric Metaxas
Advice is what you ask for when you already know the answer but wish you didn't.
- Erica Jong
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong