401 Quotes About Certainty

The only happiness you can be sure of is the happiness you create for yourself.

I dislike certainty because it feels like truth, but it isn’t. And I think I have had some inkling what it is for a whole people to become certain.

the only real, genuinely unquestionable thing here was only death itself

Those who lacked certainty took others’ certainties as truths, however deceitful and shallow they were.

Be certain there are no coincidences

Un dialoghetto filosofico: " Verrà al mio cocktail?" . "Certo, certissimo, anzi probabile".

To be secure in one’s convictions is thus to be absurdly oxymoronic, since conviction is really a state of insecurity. If you know something for a fact, you have no need to believe it or to be convinced of it. You need belief only when you are not sure. Belief is thus the product not of knowledge, but of uncertainty. It contains within itself the possibility of disbelief. "Agnostic: A Spirited Manifesto

What was sureness and certainty? I used to hold on to certainty like a light inside me, hoping it would chase out the dark unknown. But certainty was a phantom strung together on hopes. It would lead you astray at the first chance.

Certainty is as it were a tone of voice in which one declares how things are, but one does not infer from the tone of voice that one is justified.