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Certainty Quotes

"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination"
John Keats
"It is [the] certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel."
Karl A. Menninger
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."
Bertrand Russell
"The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything"
Isabel Allende
"Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know."
Michel de Montaigne
"When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness"
Mary Shelley
"Love is the answer and you know that for sure"
John Lennon
"It is remarkable that the human mind can manage to be so wrong yet so confident"
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"When you believe in a thing believe in it all the way implicitly and unquestionable"
Walt Disney
"The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt"
Rene Descartes
"The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt"
Bertrand Russell
"A belief in hell is the only one, among numerous metaphysical beliefs, which has always seemed to me to be entirely certain."
Aldous Huxley
"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth and truth rewarded me"
Simone de Beauvoir
"Doubt is but another element of faith"
Saint Augustine
"I don't want to believe I want to know"
Carl Sagan
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