Quotes About Certainty

Unbelieving is within it, something believing.

Whatever subject that Today, mirrors and qualifies as accurate and right. Contrarily, Tomorrow may challenge and asseverate that, as inaccurate and wrong.

why shouldn't something I have always known be the very best there is.

Belief and hope, it seemed were not the same thing,....

How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?

You can't leave me here to hope, when in reality you've already decided everything.

But her body, seated a few inches from mine on the wooden bench, had manifested no unease. Not even her voice, which had been sure and clear: no. Not a single sign that might lead me to think that she was lying. Thus I had no doubt. She was lying.

Devo reimparare il passo tranquillo di chi crede di sapere dove sta andando e perché

No lo sé, es difícil dar una respuesta tajante que sea cierta

A ella todo le salía, escogía bien las películas que iban a ver, los libros, los amigos, se manejaba con seguridad. Con ella eran buenas las conversaciones y buenas las comidas. Mucho más madura que las de su edad; llevarla a su lado, ahuecando el pecho, su pelo de lino alborotado, era una certeza equiparable a saber que la tierra gira en torno al sol.

epistemologist?

I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.

Our most cultural state is one of total certainty—which is the reason those of us who are most certain are those who are most out of touch with nature (i.e., reality).

MILO: You must be joking. ANDREW: You would know it if I were.

They say: "In the long run truth will triumph;" but it is untrue.

It has been said, 'the truth will make men free.' The truth alone has never made anyone free. It is only doubt which will bring mental emancipation.

Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she believed in God, without explanation or discussion.

Aunque quizá, por otra parte, la vida sea precisamente andar a tientas. En la mía, las certidumbres –y no he tenido más que dos o tres– me han llevado en general a lo peor.

Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.

He who does not know how to believe, should not know.

No me deje en manos de personas llenas de certezas, son gente terrible

Truth is not always provable!

Intuition,' he answered with a shrug. 'It is the only tool left to the mathematician in the absence of proof.

Il faut beaucoup de scepticisme pour se satisfaire de ce qui est. Les amants de l'absolu ne rejettent ce qui est que par une croyance éperdue en ce qui n'est peut-être pas