Quotes About Certainty

What is the proof that I know something? Most certainly not my saying I know it.

What a curious attitude scientists have: "We still don't know that; but it is knowable and it is only a matter of time before we get to know it!"' As if that went without saying.

At the foundation of well-founded belief lies belief that is not founded.

Certainty is as it were a tone of voice in which one declares how things are, but one does not infer from the tone of voice that one is justified.

2.223 In order to discover whether the picture is true or false we must compare it with reality. 2.224 It cannot be discovered from the picture alone whether it is true or false. 2.225 There is no picture which is a priori true.

Das Spiel des Zweifelns selbst setzt schon die Gewißheit voraus.

Tem de admitir-se que é verdade que saber qualquer coisa não implica pensar nisso - mas alguém que saiba de alguma coisa não tem de ser capaz de duvidar dela? E duvidar significa pensar.

Se trata de lo que podríamos llamar la vivencia de sentirse absolutamente seguro. Me refiero a aquel estado anímico en el que nos sentimos inclinados a decir: Estoy seguro, pase lo que pase, nada puede dañarme.

A certeza é por assim dizer um tom de voz em que alguém declara como são as coisas, mas não se infere desse tom que tem razão.

Logic precedes every experience—that something is so.

Otimista é quem acha que tem que haver uma luz no fim deste túnel. Pessimista é o que não tem muita certeza de que isto é um túnel.

What you needed more than anything, for the purposes of ambition, was certainty, was a belief that the rest of being, the entirety of the cosmos, should not be allowed to penetrate and divert you from the cause--the chief and primary cause, which was, clearly, yourself.

She'd be absolutely certain before she told

Etienne abrió sus brazos en ademán de invitación y respiró aliviado cuando ella se entregó a su abrazo. Allí era donde debía estar. Podía sentirlo. En trescientos años ninguna otra mujer le había hecho sentir que era la adecuada. Había acertado al transformar a Rachel. Estaba hecha para él.

I do not threaten," he assured her. "I

We are often most in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused.

truth is reality

define dependency as the inability to experience wholeness or to function adequately without the certainty that one is being actively cared for by another. Dependency in physically healthy adults is pathological—it is sick, always a manifestation of a mental illness or defect.

Trust is the ultimate strength.

Há muitos modos de afirmar; há só um de negar tudo.

Crê em ti; mas nem sempre duvides dos outros.

I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what.

If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.

Nothing really important in life is in the realm of provable fact.