Absolute Certainty Quotes

Absolute Certainty Quote of the day

I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way.

Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.

Nothing can trouble you but your own imagination.

If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong.

I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute certainty.

As a scientist, I don't believe anything. Science shouldn't use the word belief. There are things more likely and less likely. Science can say nothing with absolute certainty.

Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.

It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.

All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.

I'm through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me.... If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I know by that fact alone and with absolute certainty that Tolstoy will find it bad, and vice versa.

People always tell me with absolute certainty that they don't trust themselves.

Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.

Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error. . . .

“Et Tu, Babe” was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer’s life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing, it’s my whole life.

Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.

We do know, with absolute certainty, that Saddam Hussein is using his procurement system to acquire the equipment he needs in order to enrich uranium to build a nuclear weapon.

It is not that there are no certainties, it is that it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties.

Faith to me is having absolute certainty that God is in control of my life and that He has my best interests at heart.

Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity.

The greatest weapon any warrior can carry into battle is absolute certainty of her eternal soul.

I'm sure one of the frustrations of being a Western enthusiast of Japanese food and culture is you're confronted every day with the absolute certainty that you will die ignorant.