401 Quotes About Certainty

Corruptio optimi pessima: no greater cruelty will be devised than by those who are sure, or are assured, that they are doing good.

Life is always a victory. How can we ever fail by living, when death – the ultimate “failure” – is the only certainty?

If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.

The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with certainty that they possess the right are dark inside and darken the world outside with cruelty, pain, and injustice.

مگر حاصل یک عمر چیست؟ این که در صحّت بدیهی ها شک کنی. و یک یک شان را از دست بدهی. و هر کدام شان را بدل کنی به یک علامت استفهام.

Whatever doubt might rise, he knew that he was right. But the rightness was an intellectual rightness and the doubt emotional.

I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.

For everyone nowadays knows, absolutely certain, that nothing will ever happen to me. Others die, I go on.

Perhaps, it is better to be decided than undecided. But it is certainly the best to stay decidedly undecided.