Quotes About Certainty

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Never ask a question if you don't know the answer. — Rhett

Rhett: If you've made up your mind to impale someone, do it with conviction.

Never ask a question if you don't know the answer.

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man- There are only four things certain since Social Progress began:- That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire, And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire; And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins From The Gods of the Copybook Headings

This is true; we all say so.

Car, si je considérais l'homme surtout en termes psychologiques, Smith l'évaluait en termes sociaux et Terron en termes mythiques. Ce qui provoquait en moi une quête irritée de certitude, une insécurité qui me mettait nettement mal à l'aise.

A dog-it was a dog I saw for certain. Or thought I saw. It was snowing pretty hard by then, and you can see things in the snow that aren't there, or aren't exactly there, so that by God when you do see something, you react anyhow, erring on the distaff side, if you get my drift. That's my training as a driver, but it's also my temperament as a mother of two grown sons and wife to an invalid, and that way when I'm wrong at least I'm wrong on the side of the angels.

Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief, but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief that sustains thought and holds the world together.

What is decisive is that with God everything is possible. . . This is indeed a generally recognized truth, which is commonly expressed in this way, but the critical decision does not come until a person is brought to his extremity, when, humanly speaking, there is no possibility. Then the question is whether he will believe that for God everything is possible...

Doubt is conquered by faith, just as it is faith which has brought doubt into the world.

si pudiera alguien demostrar que no hay que creer absolutamente nada, por causa de la posibilidad del engaño, yo puedo demostrar que hay que creerlo todo, por causa de la posibilidad del engaño.

Solo hay un camino para asegurarse nunca ser engañado, y ese es el de creerlo todo amorosamente.

El caballero de la fe tiene una clara conciencia de la imposibilidad; por lo tanto, sólo le puede salvar el absurdo, y lo aprehende por medio de la fe.

Once you have ventured the decisive act, you are at odds with the life of this world. You come into collision with it, and because of this you will gradually be brought into such tension that you will then be able to become certain of what Christ taught. You will begin to understand that you cannot endure this world without having recourse to Christ. What else can one expect from following the truth?

Historiallisissa kysymyksissä suurinkin mahdollinen varmuus on vain likiarvo.

those who possess faith should take care to set up certain criteria so that one might distinguish the paradox from a temptation (Anfechtung).

Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.

everything is relative, one man's absolute belief is another man's fairy tale;

If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.

This is known, and what is not known does not undermine it. This is the scientific way. To be open about the limits of one's knowledge increases public confidence in what one says is known.

When ninety-nine percent of people thought the world was flat," Evel said, "it didn't make the world flat. The world didn't need people to believe it was round to be round. Right now, ninety-nine percent of people are happily having a picnic on a railway track. Which doesn't mean there isn't a train coming down the line, traveling pretty fast. The railway train doesn't need people to believe it's coming, because it's coming.

The true story is there's no true story any more. There's no true any more that anyone can agree on.