Quotes About Certainty

If landscape reveals one certainty, it is that the extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions on profligacies with ever-fresh vigor. The whole show has been on fire from the word go.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, it's certainty.

He was neither frightened nor skeptical, but felt himself drawn in with an involuntary faith--which is what faith is--

Bir ak?l ça??n?n kâfirliÄŸi. DoÄŸruyu görür ve onaylar, ama yanl??? yapar?m.

Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility.

The fastest way to feel connection, a sense of how significant your life is, a deep sense of certainty and variety, and put yourself in a state where you can give to others, is to find a way each day to appreciate more and expect less.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

it's not actual pain that drives us, but our fear that something will lead to pain. And it's not actual pleasure that drives us, but our belief—our sense of certainty—that somehow taking a certain action will lead to pleasure.

changing our belief systems is central to making any real and lasting change in our lives. We must develop a sense of certainty that we can and will meet the new standards before we actually do.

No importa lo preparado que esté, pero sí hay una cosa que puedo garantizarle: si se encuentra en el caudal de la vida, lo más probable es que

there is one thing we can see with absolute certainty: every investment has an ideal environment in which it flourishes. In other words, there's a season for everything.

Genellemeler dizisinden kesinlikler dizisine geçtik. Kesinlikleri yakalay?nca, soruna çözüm getirebilecek bir yol bulabildik. Hemen hemen tüm iletiÅŸim çeÅŸitlerinde izlenecek yol budur. AnlaÅŸmaya giden yolu, kesin bilgi açar. -S?n?rs?z Güç -Soruna çözüm üretebilmek için öncelikle muÄŸlakl?ktan kaç?narak problemi net bir ÅŸekilde ortaya koymak gerekir.

while most people have to establish competence before they feel confident, I decide to feel confident, and that provides the sense of certainty to persist until I am competent.

While it's time to master your money, don't wait to master yourself. The fastest way to feel connection, a sense of how significant your life is, a deep sense of certainty and variety, and put yourself in a state where you can give to others, is to find a way each day to appreciate more and expect less. The wealthiest person on earth is one who appreciates.

When Mr. Dove had once been positive, no man on earth was more positive. It behoved him, therefore, to be right when he was positive; and though whether wrong or right he was equally stubborn, it must be acknowledged that he was seldom proved to be wrong

Tell me one thing, Major Mackintosh," she said, as she gave him her hand at parting,— "they can't take away from me anything that is my own; — can they?" "I don't think they can," said the major, escaping rather quickly from the room.

Then she knew what she had done, and remembered to have heard that a girl who expresses a doubt is supposed to have gone beyond doubting. While

There are certain statements which, though they are false as hell, must be treated as though they were true as gospel.

I do not think that you have any ground for fear on

I know it is so. What dear-bought treasured certainty that was.

if I'm sure I'm right, there is little hope of seeing where I am failing. So I keep trying the same old things-

the more sure I am that I'm right, the more likely I will actually be mistaken. My need to be right makes it more likely that I will be wrong! Likewise, the more sure I am that I am mistreated, the more likely I am to miss ways that I am mistreating others myself. My need for justification obscures the truth.

Life is uncooperative, impartial, incontestable.

What peace it must be to know that someone is yours, no matter what - it is ordained, can never be otherwise.