Quotes About Certainty

And there's always the comfort of knowing that you're dealing with the necessities of a situation and not with the vagaries of some fool's whim.

You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it is going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, its always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

I bet you've seen the fundamentalist bumper sticker that says, "God said it! I believe it! That settles it!" It must be a typo because what the driver really means is, "I said it! God believes it! That settles it!

a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

Belief and seeing are both often wrong.

when that small Siberian bird fell out of the sky over Gray's River, not once but twice, he brought with him the sweetness of chance in any place, the certainty of wonder in all places. And if that's not grace, I don't know what it.

Estimado señor, le ruego que deje de creer en mí.

My life till now seems to have been fairly empty, and the certainty that it will remain empty gives a feeling of endlessness, a feeling which tells one to go to sleep, and to do only the most unavoidable things.

We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain

banking is like religion: you have to accept certain rather dicey things simply on faith, and then everything else follows in marvellous logic.

sure of the diagnosis. I'm in love with you, Denise.

More than ready...Because God's got this.

Quería estar seguro, muy seguro, de que cada una de sus palabras era la mejor que podía ofrecer».

Y así, quizá por primera vez en su vida, prescindió de los grilletes de la razón y decidió confiar en su intuición. Se sentía más seguro así.

The new moon is rising the eyelid of God is approaching The humane train the skating raining travelling voice of certainty

And therefore, according as any one is more anxious in demanding a reason, by so much will he be the firmer in preserving his faith.9

Faith, not belief, carries us forward; for a belief is a thought, whereas faith is a knowing, a certainty which grows in the marrow.

Backed by their models, they felt more certain than others did - almost invincible. Given enough time, given enough capital, the young geniuses from academe felt they could do no wrong

G* No individual mathematician ascertains mathematical truth solely by means of an algorithm that he or she knows to be sound.

One thing is immediately apparent, and this is that many statements made in the first-person case are epistemologically privileged.

Throughout the proofs of the Ethics , therefore, the reader can never be certain whether the extraordinary ideas which are brought so compellingly before him are fiction or reality.

Let there be an end to thought. Thus do I refute Descartes.' I sprawled, not a cogito or a sum to my name.

Il m'importe peu de savoir si Dieu existe ou non ; mais ce que je sais et que je saurai jusqu'au bout, c'est qu'il n'aurait pas dû créer en même temps l'amour et la mort. Le Neutre, c'est ce Non irréductible : un Non comme suspendu devant les endurcissements de la foi et de la certitude et incorruptible par l'une et par l'autre.