Certainty Quotes

There’s no absolutes in life – only vodka.

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!

We must distinguish between the sound certainly and the sham . . .and then, when certainly is attained, we must remember that it is not the only good that we can buy at too high a price.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

They do things better with logarithms.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable… but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, “I knew my son was mortal.” So we in all casualties of life should say, I knew my riches were uncertain; that my friend was but a man. Such considerations would soon pacify us, because all our troubles proceed from their being […]

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

“There are no absolutes,” they chatter, blanking out the fact that they are uttering an absolute.