Quotes About Certainty

Belief is the enemy of knowledge.

Directly a man begins to say Yes without the question Why? he becomes a dogmatist, a potential, if not an actual liar.

Išla je i znala kuda treba da ide. To je bilo sve. Veli?anstveno ose?anje. Kad se sudbina napokon raskrili i postane razgovetna staza i nedvosmisleni trag i pouzdan pravac. Beskrajno vreme približavanja. TO primicanje. Kad bi moglo trajati ve?no. Pokret predavanja sudbini. To je emocija. Nema više nedoumica, nema više laži. Znati kuda. I sti?i je. Ma kakva bila, ta sudbina.

Spoljni svet je i dalje tamo. Šta god da uradiš, budi siguran da ?eš ga zate?i na njegovom mestu uvek. Da ?ovek prosto ne poveruje, ali tako je.

A un certo punto una di quelle porte si aprì. Io per un attimo ebbi l'assoluta certezza che lei sarebbe uscita da lì, e mi sarebbe passata accanto, senza dire una parola. L'uomo scosse leggermente il capo. - Però non accadde nulla, perché alla vita manca sempre qualcosa per essere perfetta.

No... non credo che dovrei. Davvero. Ma lo disse con allegria. Bisogna immaginarselo detto con allegria. No... non credo che dovrei. Davvero. Così.

Lo que era para nosotros, lo hemos hecho, y vos lo sabéis. Creedme: lo hemos hecho para siempre.

He said it softly, because he didn't believe, ever, that the truth was good for anything.

So: I knew dream life. In fact, in a way, I was actually comfortable with it. Dream life, I realized, was only confusing when you were awake. It was from the perspective of waking life that dream life seemed fractured and lacking consequence, lacking any certainty that one thing led to another. But from within dream life, the world was generally coherent. Not exactly an unconfusing world---just no more confusing than any other.

The mention of God made Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni frown. In his experience, people were always claiming that God agreed with them even when there was little or no evidence that this was the case.

As a general rule, making other people happy is one of the few things we can do with utter certainty that what we're doing is the right thing.

Everything was so clear-cut to the student mind; the truth was passionately proclaimed, rather than half-believed in, which was how more experienced people thought of things. The more experienced had generally discovered that there were no longer any privileged, exclusive truths – there were just the various shades of possibility.

Who is happier, those who are aware, and doubt, or those who are sure of what they believe in, and have never doubted or questioned it? The answer, she had concluded, was that this had nothing to do with happiness, which came upon you like the weather, determined by your personlaity.

Do not think that in any case where there are two competing arguments one of them has to be right: both can be wrong.

Now, as he finished the last of his porridge, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni reminded himself that the one thing he felt certain about when it came to women was that you could never be sure.

take away this remaining doubt that, if it does not become a certainty, will turn into remorse.

Truth, most succinctly defined is: That Which Is So. Non-Truth, most succinctly defined is: That Which Is Not So.

It's often been said that "seeing is believing", but in many cases, the reverse is also true. Believing results in seeing.

We must, however, reaffirm what we know to be true, even when we don't feel it to be true. This will help us to live more by faith than by feelings.

embodied in the notion that there is no certainty in any worldview. But, in fact, everyone who has managed to entertain that idea, for a moment or for a lifetime, has found it to be the basis for radical empowerment. If no paradigm is right, you can choose whatever one will help to achieve your purpose.

Gymn says your fine. He's examined your internal organs and found nothing lacking.

Lefty A wise guy's always right even when he's wrong, he's right.

With the time and energy we spend in making failure a certainty we might have certain success.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.