Certitude Quotes

“There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.”
― Michael Faraday

“If anyone doesn't agree with you, the truth is on your side.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“It sometimes requires ignorance and arrogance to know something for sure.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“There lay certitude; there, in the daily round.
All the rest hung on mere threads and trivial contingencies; you couldn't waste
your time on it. The thing was to do your job as it should be done.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“L´Homme pense avoir des certitudes, mais ce ne sont rien d'autre que des doutes qu'il n'entend pas.”
― Agnès Ledig

“Your certitude is in questionable taste," Mr. Tagomi said. "It seems to press untowardly.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

“Certitude and habitual modes of thinking will not be one's friend if wisdom is the goal.”
― Jason A Merchey, Wisdom: A Very Valuable Virtue That Cannot Be Bought

“La certitude que tout est écrit nous annule ou fait de nous des fantômes...”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones

“Never Label Anyone as Your Best Friend.. ‘cos they will end up stabbing you behind all in the name of Certitude”
― Omotoso Omotayo Olawande

“The management has exploited our wish for infallible systems: here is the water, there is the land, no one can make a mistake. Up to this line there is no danger; on the other side of the line waits certain death. Therefore the alarm wails and the guests flee from their rooms with their clothes fluttering around them. The illusion of complete safety so long as the margin is not reached bears the reverse implication of complete panic once the margin is exceeded. It is easier to choose these sharp demarcation lines than uncertainty in our individual situation; the adjustment has been so small that in itself it is not disastrous, but could contribute to disaster.”
― Sven Holm, Termush