Top 24 False Certainty Quotes
#1. It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.
Sam Harris
#2. I know why we're strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it's because there's always been a growing middle class.
Joe Biden
#3. Moral certainty is certainty which is sufficient to regulate our behaviour, or which measures up to the certainty we have on matters relating to the conduct of life which we never normally doubt, though we know that it is possible, absolutely speaking, that they may be false.
Rene Descartes
#4. From whomsoever one hears anything, it is wisdom to understand the true import of it.
Thiruvalluvar
#6. Unless you are an enormous name, you never stop auditioning.
Richard E. Grant
#7. We don't live in a world that suffers from doubt, but one that suffers from certainty, false certainties that compensate for the well of worldly anxieties and worries.
Les Back
#8. He remembered a film called How to Murder Your Wife, but Martin couldn't think of any movie called How to Murder Your Nephew.
Marshall Thornton
#9. In the 1950s, the average person saw science as something that solved problems. With the advent of nuclear weapons and pollution, the idealistic aura around scientific research has been replaced by cynicism.
Sheldon Lee Glashow
#10. That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!
Jesse Ball
#11. Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.
Dan Simmons
#12. I have been to the world's end and back and now I know what I would put in my bottom drawer. I would put my sisters.
Kate Atkinson
#13. Destiny is not a mystery. For better or worse, your destiny is the result of your daily decisions and defining decisions.
Mark Batterson
#14. No one can know a false thing, one can only believe it with certainty until it is contradicted. (Page 7)
Orson Scott Card
#16. [For people] to refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
John Stuart Mill
#17. People thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are - and connecting that to work that they truly love .
Po Bronson
#18. To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty.
John Stuart Mill
#19. But he is now so accustomed to seeing that vertical strip of light when he opens his eyes in the morning that he has reached the absurd conclusion that without it he would be trapped forever in the shadows of sleep, in the darkness of his own body and the darkness of the world.
Jose Saramago
#20. Dry your eyes O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise To ease my breast of melodies.
John Keats
#21. I know it sounds silly, but it takes some time getting used to all the cameras in your face. I think it's like playing jazz. After I learn the rules, I can have fun and play a little bit.
Monica Raymund
#22. I marveled a bit at the feat Lubianka re-education. I also began to understand more clearly what was meant by rewriting history for the proletariat and how it could be arranged that young people would hear nothing whatsoever of God.
Walter Ciszek
#23. To see your-self you must first be yourself, to be your-self you must first know yourself, and to know your-self you must first love your-self more than anything in the world.-Mark Miller
Mark Miller
#24. And when his head slumped forward into his book, she giggled, for she knew that he was hers.
C. Robert Cargill
