logo

Quotes About Certainty

You can't doubt so much, Psyche
~ Francesca Lia Block
As his lips moved with exquisite gentleness from the bruise in her hairline to the bandaged cut over her left eyebrow, he knew that he somehow possessed the power to kiss her and make her better. It was a puzzling, inexplicable kind of certainty that came only in dreams. It was an idea so complex and fragile that if he even blinked, he feared he would lose it.
~ Francine Pascal
Never doubt in the darkness what God has given us in the light.
~ Francine Rivers
But when you ask him, be sure that you really expect him to answer, for a doubtful mind is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.
~ Francine Rivers
and without faith, we have no hope.
~ Francine Rivers
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
~ Francis Bacon
They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.
~ Frank Herbert
Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right!
~ Frank Herbert
There's a Bene Gesserit saying," she said. "You have sayings for everything!" he protested. "You'll like this one," she said. "It goes: 'Do not count a human dead until you've seen his body. And even then you can make a mistake.
~ Frank Herbert
Abandon certainty! That's life's deepest command. That's what life's all about. We're a probe into the unknown, into the uncertain. Why can't you hear Muad'Dib? If certainty is knowing absolutely an absolute future, then that's only death disguised! Such a future becomes now!
~ Frank Herbert
Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.
~ Frank Herbert
Do not count a human dead until you've seen his body. And even then you can make a mistake.
~ Frank Herbert
They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.
~ Frank Herbert
All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.
~ Frank Herbert
Nikad ne pokušavaj razložno razgovarati s ljudima koji vjeruju da su u pravu.
~ Frank Herbert
But he felt nothing except: Here's an important fact. It was one with all the other facts.
~ Frank Herbert
He shook his head, thinking of the Bene Gesserit designs behind those genetic markers in Teg's face — that hawk look, the crease lines and that inner thing, that certainty of moral superiority. How moral and how superior?
~ Frank Herbert
trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.
~ Frank Herbert
Para los demás, diremos que Muad'Dib aprendió rápidamente porque la primera enseñanza que recibió fue la certeza básica de que podía aprender. Es horrible pensar cómo tanta gente cree que no puede aprender, y cómo más gente aún cree que el aprender es difícil. Muad'Dib sabía que cada experiencia lleva en sí misma su lección.
~ Frank Herbert
Bir karara varamamak ba?l? ba??na bir karard?.
~ Frank Herbert
They're not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.
~ Frank Herbert
Para los demás, diremos que Muad'Dib aprendió rápidamente porque lo primero que le enseñaron fueron los fundamentos del aprendizaje. Y la primera lección, la certeza de que podía aprender. Es perturbador descubrir que mucha gente cree que no puede aprender, y que más gente aún cree que aprender es difícil.
~ Frank Herbert
EÄŸer kesinlik, mutlak bir geleceÄŸi mutlak olarak bilmekse, bu yaln?zca k?l?k deÄŸiÅŸtirmiÅŸ ölümdür!
~ Frank Herbert
Abandonem a certeza! Esse é o comando mais profundo que a vida nos dá. É o que constitui a vida, no final das contas.
~ Frank Herbert