Quotes About Certainty

Because we cannot imagine a thing, that doesn't exclude it from reality.

make the determinism certain.

What is sure is what God has revealed. With that we can start our exploration. In our exploring what is sure is that what the Church has defined is true, what the Church has condemned is false: Christ established a Church that could do us this essential service. For most of us, exploration will be only the effort to understand as much as is thus certain. And it is immensely rewarding.

They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

Sa svog naslonja?a vladao si svijetom. Tvoje mišljenje bilo je pravilno, svako drugo bilo je ludo, prenapeto, nenormalno. Pri tome, bilo je tvoje samopouzdanje tako veliko da nisi ni morao biti dosljedan,a ipak si još uvijek imao pravo.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I therefore place it sealed in your hands, wholly, utterly - just as I have already placed myself in them.

They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

Man muß nicht alles für wahr halten, man muß es nur für notwendig halten.

62. Fakt, ?e istnieje tylko ?wiat duchowy, odbiera nam nadziej?, ale daje nam pewno??.

I would gladly explain the feeling of happiness which, like now, I have within me from time to time. It is really something effervescent that fills me completely with a light, pleasant quiver and that persuades me of the existence of abilities of whose non-existence I can convince myself with complete certainty at any moment, even now.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

It's right there on my birth certificate, 'Shelton Hank Williams III.' It's not fake.

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

People thought I was cocky because I didn't talk much. When I first turned pro, reporters asked me who was going to win. I'd say, 'I am' because it was the easier than giving some long, drawn-out answer.

EPA takes its Clean Air Act responsibilities seriously and is committed to providing certainty to state and industry partners. We will not use our authority to pick winners and losers in the energy marketplace.

Speculative joy, the joy derived from being right and being rewarded, may well be similar to the rush felt by a winning gambler.

And then, of course, there's a couple that claim to be, but I haven't done any DNA tests or anything.

Genes work with probabilities; they don't work with certainties. So most things that you're looking at with these genetic tests, it's not like you're condemned to automatically get the disease or the syndrome. There's a lot of factors in play there.

I can say with absolute certainty that I will run for one of two offices: my state Senate seat or for the governor. I'm still trying to decide, but I do think people are ready for a change from the partisan, very fractured leadership we have in Texas.

Usually, I chalk Democratic dreams of a blue Texas to the same sort of thinking that brought us the inevitability of the coalition of the ascendant and 100% certainty that Donald Trump was going to lose.