Quotes About Certainty

I don't know Who—or what—put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone—or Something—and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal. —DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD, Markings

I love to be, and so often am, right.

If I were God, I'd have the answers at the end of the workbook, so you could check to see if you're on the right track as you go along.

There's nothing wrong in doubting. It sometimes leads to greater faith.

The truth doesn't care what we think of it.

It was his own soul he was exploring, the one territory from which there was no escape, the one enemy which must always be faced, sooner or later, more certain than anything else in life or death.

What was presumed and what was actually known were two entirely different things.

Because no one could in any guise convince me of what I myself knew to be true, that I was damned in my own mind and soul.

Mary Beth considered the matter for a long time, and then explained in her simple straightforward manner that the future wasn't predetermined, it was merely predictable.

Don't be so certain of anything. There are many experiences within the Shaktanis that I wish to share with you. You may read and absorb them at your leisure. But do absorb them, Ramses. Don't leap to rash conclusions. Don't diminish them into a hasty code of morals and laws for beings such as us. Let them embrace you so they may guide you.

Coming here had not been a mistake. Willa couldn't say exactly how she knew that, but she did.

But Willa said, "Talk what through? I'm marrying him and that's that.

She squeezes my hand, and I feel that certainty I always had as a littlie. That I'm more than expendable. More than a body double.

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

Until we can navigate in time, I'm not sure that we can prove that what happened is real.

It's all a risk. Always. That's not true, actually. The only exception: it's a certainty that there's risk. The safer you play your plans for the future, the riskier it actually is. That's because the world is certainly, definitely, and more than possibly changing.

Reality is the best reassurance of all.

we give up our freedoms and responsibilities in exchange for the certainty that comes from being told what to do

Like scared civilians eager to do whatever a despot tells them, we give up our freedoms and responsibilities in exchange for the certainty that comes from being told what to do.

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics.

knowledge is indeed highly subjective, but we can quantify it with a bet. The amount we wager shows how much we believe in something.

Men always think God favors their cause. I am sure Ya'q?b of Aleppo never doubted it, either.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well," Václav Havel, the Czech dissident, writer, and statesman, said, "but the certainty that it is worth doing no matter how it turns out.

You might have a hundred ways to fool yourself, but I don't bother with that shit. I know better. You're it for me, and what we just did in that bed together proved it. I'm smitten. Gone. And I can't stand that you don't trust me.