Quotes About Certainty

Pretpostavimo da sam ja apsolutno u pravu a da monsignor, na primjer, ima potpuno krivo. Ako sam ja u pravu, problem suvislosti svijeta, i sva odgovornost za nju, postaju moji.

Spremnost da se odgovori na sva pitanja nepogrešivi je znak gluposti.

Our subject: science and religion; the boundaries of scientific knowledge, the certainty that there are other kinds of knowing.

The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with complete certainty that they possess the right are dark inside and darken the world outside with cruelty, pain, and injustice

Reality is overrated and impossible to understand with any degree of certainty. What you do know for sure is that some ways of looking at the world work better than others. Pick the way that works, even if you don't know why.

Skeptics," he said, "suffer from the skeptics' disease— the problem of being right too often.

Being absolutely right and being spectacularly wrong feel exactly the same.

Consider the people who routinely disagree with you. See how confident they look while being dead wrong? That's exactly how you look to them.

Anyone who is confident in the face of great complexity is insane.

we come to understand how easy it is to be confident in our opinions and yet spectacularly wrong.

Decisiveness Decisiveness looks like leadership. Keep in mind that most normal people are at least a little bit uncertain when facing unfamiliar and complicated situation. What people crave in that sort of environment is anything that looks like certainty. If you can deliver an image of decisiveness, no matter how disingenuous, others will see it as leadership.

Reality is overrated and impossible to understand with any degree of certainty. What you do know for sure is that some ways of looking at the world work better than others. Pick the way that works, even if you don't know why. The

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La esperanza no se basa principalmente en la gracia ya recibida, sino en la omnipotencia y misericordia de Dios… Todo el que tiene fe tiene la certeza de que Dios es omnipotente y misericordioso

That's what makes reality reality, the fact that it just keeps being true no matter how much you argue with it.

That's not a good enough answer." "I know that better than anyone. But it is the answer regardless of whether or not you think it's good enough. That's what makes reality reality, the fact that it just keeps being true no matter how much you argue with it.

I'm a girl. When Deryn opened her eyes, the lady boffin was staring at her with no change of expression. Indeed, she said. Deryn's mouth feel open. You mean you...Did you barking know ? I had no idea at all. But I make it a policy never to appear surprised. Dr. Barlow sighed, staring out the window. Though on this occasion, it is proving rather more demanding than usual. A girl, you say? And you're quite certain?

In a novel you always knew the moment when something Happened, when someone Changed. But real life was full of gradual, piecemeal, continuous transformation. It was full of accidents and undefineables, and things that just happened on their own. The only certainty was 'It's complicated,' whether or not unicorns tolerated your touch.

So viel versichre ich dir: ich bin über die wichtigsten Punkte mehr als gewiß, und obgleich die Erkenntnis sich ins Unendliche erweitern könnte, so hab' ich doch vom Endlich-Unendlichen einen sichern, ja klaren und mitteilbaren Begriff.

O, svetitelju! Tu sam vas i ceko! Zar bi vam ovo bio slucaj prvi da nesto svedocite lazno? Zar niste Boga, svet i sve sto svetom vrvi, sve sto coveku trepti u glavi i u krvi, definisali izvanredno snazno, drskoga cela, smelo, zaneseno? A kad biste valjano u sebe zagledali, morali biste priznati posteno da ste o svemu tome taman toliko znali koliko i o smrti gospodin-Svertlajnovoj.

The most important thing to remember is that all fact is already theory.

Wir alle sind so borniert, daß wir immer glauben, recht zu haben.

Belief is the enemy.

Hope ... is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success, but, rather, an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.1