Quotes About Certainty

Anyone could see it all coming and no one could possibly stop it and that was the beautiful thing. Friday night was open wide and writ in stone

The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.

Fundamentalism—the intellectual style, not the religious movement—is the strong disinclination to take seriously the notion that you might be wrong.

In times of stress, psychological pressures compel us to deny or dismiss inconsistent evidence, pushing us to perceive certainty and clarity where there is neither.

Some ideas actually are false, and at some point the process of checking establishes their falsehood so firmly that to proceed as if they might be true becomes ridiculous. For

Sixth, fundamentalism, properly understood, is not about religion. It is about the inability to seriously entertain the possibility that one might be wrong. In individuals such fundamentalism is natural and, within reason, desirable. But when it becomes the foundation for an intellectual system, it is inherently a threat to freedom of thought.

There is nothing like absolute certainty in the whole field of our knowledge," writes Popper.

chess games are rarely lost by oversights but rather by "the failure to apprehend certainties".

The trouble was that they also argued that the worst thing you can have is certainty. Conviction, they said, leads to tyranny. On this they were wrong, indeed self-contradictory. Hayek was certain that freedom was preferable to slavery

Faith is the defeat of probability by the power of possibility.

She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.

Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a certainty that can lead to violence when the world doesn't fit.

I was as sure as I could humanly be, and still, I failed. So what do you think your chances are if you've already got serious doubts?

Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true.

There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty.

Je suis devenu celui que j'avais si peur de devenir. Un sceptique. Un agnostique - même pas assez croyant pour être athée. Un homme qui pense que le contraire de la vérité n'est pas le mensonge, mais la certitude. Et le pire, du point de vue de celui que j'ai été, c'est que je m'en porte plutôt bien. (p. 141)

Su palabra equivale a un contrato

Sans l'aimer lui-même, il était sûr qu'elle l'aimait et cette certitude le rassurait. Quelqu'un l'attendait, il avait un refuge, et maintenant plus rien.

Non sarebbe male se potessimo essere certi di saper fare un atto di pura carità prima della fine.

Trust me. I'm a genius.

Non abbiamo tanto bisogno dell'aiuto degli amici, quanto della certezza del loro aiuto.

Se em suas idéias baseadas na opinião, você apressadamente afirmar como verdadeiro tudo o que aguarda confirmação e o que não espera confirmação, não escapará ao erro, pois estará mantendo total ambiguidade sempre que se tratar de julgar entre a opinião certa e a errada.

onde as evidências são conflitantes, a certeza não deve ser alegada.

Things never stay just the same, any time. Change seems to be one of the few certainties in life. Just as well. But while we look forward eagerly to what is to come, we can thoughtfully appreciate the good that has been and what we have at the moment." With