Quotes About Certainty

The actual facts of morality are too much on my side for me to fear that my theory can ever be replaced or upset by any other.

What does the absolute mean? Something that is, and of which (under pain of punishment) we dare not ask further whence and why it is. A precious rarity for professors of philosophy!

And they would not believe me precisely because they would know that what I said was true.

Human judgment, even expert human judgment, falls well short of certainty.

It disturbed me, however, to have felt so confident about what had happened that day and to have been so wrong.

Doctors with high confidence in a judgment they made proved no more accurate than doctors with low confidence.

In the end what he gave Eleanor and her father was mainly confidence, from what I could see.

We've created a multitrillion-dollar edifice for dispensing the medical equivalent of lottery tickets—and have only the rudiments of a system to prepare patients for the near certainty that those tickets will not win.

The trouble is that we've built our medical system and culture around the long tail. We've created a multitrillion-dollar edifice for dispensing the medical equivalent of lottery tickets—and have only the rudiments of a system to prepare patients for the near certainty that those tickets will not win. Hope is not a plan, but hope is our plan. *

After a couple of weeks, she grew only more convinced

I didn't see much likelihood that an error would be found. Today

It is just a lonely certainty that we are right and everybody else wrong, which makes it worthwhile for us busy-bodies to go on making a nuisance of ourselves. Our job is to keep both the simple Philistine and the greedy rich in their places, to prevent them, in their stupidity and avarice, from destroying everything that is left.

He really is the most arrogant person I've ever come across. 'I am, therefore God exists'. ALICE

Yes, you and the Baptists have found the only true faith. You are indeed lucky!

LAURA. Because the mother is closer to the child, as it has been discovered that no one can tell for a certainty who the father of a child is. CAPTAIN.

I thought, This is how it feels inside the right decision.

The decided mind is a closed mind. A closed mind can keep you separated from the ultimate truth.

So he definitely hadn't been angry, and I definitely had believed he was. This meant something inside of me — something I had relied on my entire life — was essentially faulty. My compass, my inner homing pigeon, my deeper instincts. Since mine clearly could not be trusted, I would have to rely on his.

I'm cold and free and the smartest man in the world, and this time they're going to know it, I promise you. I promise you that.

Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.

Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?

I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place.

That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming?

The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer—because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement, not the possession of a brainless slut.