Quotes About Certainty

If you believe, the evidence is all around you. If you don't believe, no evidence can be enough. All

I could head east from Fifth Avenue and reliably reach Madison, turn south from 53rd and get to 52nd every single time. The scientist—or the Buddhist—might declare such perceptions were illusions, but not one of them would head uptown to get to the Bowery. They knew what they knew. They saw what they saw. So

There's a clarity that arrives when life forces you into a binary situation.

How do you weigh the known versus the unknown? You can't. It all comes down to what statistics you choose to believe.

When no amount of evidence can convince you that your worldview might be inaccurate, then we've exited the realm of reason and entered religious territory.

Even testing a theory and reaching an expected conclusion doesn't really "prove" it in the sense that people think. It only changes the degree of certainty.

I was never more certain of how far away I was from my goal than when I was standing right beside it.

Be near me. The world is rowdy and nothing is certain. Do not stray. None of us was meant to face the day and the night alone, though that is what we do and memory now is a place of fading togetherness. Be near me. True love is what God intends.

How do I shoot?" "Your finger through there. Feel that? But you only pull if you're sure that everything's right." "Why?" "Because you can't take it back." She

Only one thing in history is certain: that Mankind is unteachable.

Tuve la impresión de hallarme en sintonía con el destino y de que toda mi vida pasada no había sido sino un largo preparativo para esta hora y para esta prueba [...]. No se me podía reprochar ni que hubiera declarado la guerra ni que me faltara preparación para librarla. Pensé que sabía muchas cosas sobre el particular, y estaba seguro de que no iba a fracasar».

It was the day of my Judgment, and I was prepared in a thousand ways that didn't matter.

But I didn't trust luck. Luck wasn't reliable.

He accepted it, walked over to the monster, and stabbed it a dozen times. "Dead," he pronounced, and walked back over.

Probert knew, as an absolute certainty, that the British way of life and thought was by far the best on Earth. All others could only aspire to be English. Thomas was speaking nonsense – he must be.

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Don't you think"—he smiled—"that my lack of faith makes such a trance pointless?" "No, I don't. And do you know why?" "No." Nenneke leaned over and looked him in the eyes with a strange smile on her pale lips. "Because it would be the first proof I've ever heard of that a lack of faith has any kind of power at all.

I was watching them carefully, and I know people. They weren't lying." "No," the witcher agreed. "They weren't lying. They firmly believed it all. Which doesn't change the facts.

Because it would be the first proof I've ever heard of that a lack of faith has any kind of power at all.

If you know not,' she interrupted, 'there is no place for any "but". You know not. You simply know not.

Don't you think"—he smiled—"that my lack of faith makes such a trance pointless?" "No, I don't. And do you know why?" "No." Nenneke leaned over and looked him in the eyes with a strange smile on her pale lips. "Because it would be the first proof I've ever heard of that a lack of faith has any kind of power at all.

It is better to go forward without an aim than loiter without an aim, and with surety much better than to retreat without an aim.

No," the witcher agreed. "They weren't lying. They firmly believed it all. Which doesn't change the facts.

sure as eggs is eggs.