Quotes About Certainty

By asking her if she would be happier in the new job more than 0% of the time, that helped her see that there was some certainty in changing jobs. Specifically, she had a better chance of getting to where she wanted to go faster if she switched. In that moment, she realized the devil that she didn't know was the better choice.

Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.

Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch it to be sure.

I know myself. I'm not gonna be a mathematician or a professor.

Mississippi farmers and ranchers continually deal with factors that can mean disaster, which is why they look for certainty and flexibility in farm programs.

If I'm not convinced about my role then there's no fun in working on a project.

One of the reasons why fundamentalists are so aggressive in trying to promote fundamentalism is because deep down they know it's arbitrary. If you're comfortable with your belief you don't need to convince other people to agree with you.

We need proof in our society.

There is no such thing as absolute proof. There is only evidence.

Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.

We must make sure that when someone sees the Blue Flag, she or he can say, 'I am protected.'

I am a spiritualist, a proud wearer of the spiritualist badge.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

I don't have anything else to prove.

We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.

After all those years of doing a live, hour-and-a-half show every week, I've got nothing more I need to prove.

I never think I have to prove something.

No one will presumably ever be able to prove or disprove such fundamental religious principles as the existence of God.

People are always demanding proof. These are things that are not easily proved.

I proved to my own satisfaction that I am madder than I think.

All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things.

I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'

I don't like to be proved wrong.