Quotes About Certainty

Es de importancia para quien desee encontrar una certeza en su investigación, el saber dudar a tiempo.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are therir own

Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.

Nobody will be afraid who believes nothing can happen to him.

wherefore one who divines well in regard to the truth will also be able to divine well in regard to probabilities. It

The orator persuades by moral character when his speech is delivered in such a manner as to render him worthy of confidence; for we feel confidence in a greater degree and more readily in persons of worth in regard to everything in general, but where there is no certainty and there is room for doubt, our confidence is absolute. But this confidence must be due to the speech itself, not to any preconceived idea of the speaker's character;

Who, however, is in doubt 'and' awe (thaumázein) about a matter doesn't believe in the thing to begin with. That is why the friend of Stories (mÅ·thos) is also in a certain way a philosopher; because the Story arises out of awe.' (Aristotle's Metaphysics: Book I. Part II)

Beside these there is no other way; for the act is necessarily either done or not done, and those who act either have knowledge or do not.

And if a man believes nothing, but believes it equally so and not so, how would his state be different from a vegetable's?

Eentonigheid is een vorm van zekerheid, met eentonigheid kun je angst bezweren.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

It was idle to speculate, to build pyramids of surmise on a foundation of ignorance.

Atheism is unprovable, so uninteresting. However unlikely it is, we can never be certain that God once existed—and has now shot off to infinity, where no one can ever find him… Like Gautama Buddha, I take no position on this subject.

In a rare flash of humor, she had replied: "Woody, a commander can be wrong, but never uncertain.

Woody, a commander can be wrong, but never uncertain.

He felt confident that when he pulled open the drawer of that desk, he would find a Gideon Bible inside it….

Believe me, it gives us no pleasure to destroy men's faiths, but all the world's religions cannot be right, and they know it.

but all the world's religions cannot be right, and they know it.

It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact. ~ Sherlock Holmes

It is more than possible; it is probable.

While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but the percentages remain constant

I should have more faith. I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears to be opposed to a long train of deductions, it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation.

Kalau kausingkirkan semua yang mustahil, apa pun yang tersisa, betapapun mustahilnya, adalah kebenaran.

It is not what we know, but what we can prove.