Quotes About Certainty

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You believe someone not because you have no doubts about them. Belief is not the absence of doubt. You believe someone because you don't have enough doubts about them.

Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!

We start by believing. And we stop believing only when our doubts and misgivings rise to the point where we can no longer explain them away.

The first task of Blink is to convince you of a simple fact: decisions made very quickly can be every bit as good as decisions made cautiously and deliberately.

We fall out of truth-default mode only when the case against our initial assumption becomes definitive. We do not behave, in other words, like sober-minded scientists, slowly gathering evidence of the truth or falsity of something before reaching a conclusion. We do the opposite. We start by believing. And we stop believing only when our doubts and misgivings rise to the point where we can no longer explain them away.

What happens to true believers when their convictions are confronted by reality?

point. You believe someone not because you have no doubts about them. Belief is not the absence of doubt. You believe someone because you don't have enough doubts about them.

The irony, thought, is that that very desire for confidence is precisely what ends up undermining the accuracy of their decision

We are all, at heart, gradualists, our expectations set by the steady passage of time. But the world of the Tipping Point is a place where the unexpected becomes expected, where radical change is more than possibility. It is—contrary to all our expectations—a certainty.

But the truth is that for the most important decisions, there can be no certainty

I believed in you always until I couldn't anymore. Isn't that an almost perfect statement of default to truth?

The right question is: were there enough red flags to push you over the threshold of belief? If there weren't, then by defaulting to truth you were only being human.

You believe someone not because you have no doubts about them. Belief is not the absence of doubt. You believe someone because you don't have enough doubts about them.

Você acredita em alguém não porque não tenha dúvidas a respeito da pessoa. A crença não é a ausência de dúvida. Você acredita em alguém porque não tem dúvidas suficientes a respeito.

Belief is not the absence of doubt. You believe someone because you don't have enough doubts about them.

stop believing only when our doubts and misgivings rise to the point where we can no longer explain them away.

But who could agree with someone who was so certain you were going to be sober the day after to-morrow?

If everything is possible, then it is also possible that something is impossible.

Feelings will get you out of control, but faith doesn't.

Faith is to believe in something when common sense tells you not to and situation surrounding you says otherwise.

If you won't trust yourself, nobody else will.

Success comes not from having certainty, but being able to live with uncertainty.

Planning provides certainty.