Quotes About Certainty

I don't worry anymore because there's only one person that knows when your day is, and that's the good Lord above.

It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.

I felt like power meant that you had to be engaged in a certain kind of struggle by force of movement and battle - and that's very exhausting. Now, power is more about certainty and stillness and realizing that the infrastructures that we gather around and worship are the least powerful things.

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.

If something happens to me tomorrow, I'm going to go to Heaven, and that's for sure because God's promised to us in the Bible.

The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part.

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.

But I'm still not 100% convinced that Roger Clemens took steroids. I'm not.

To achieve policy stability and certainty, we need to establish a meaningful price on carbon and cut the billions of dollars spent each year on fossil-fuel subsidies, along with well-structured financial tools and rules.

I discovered that Thailand was one of those countries, like Sri Lanka and India, where memory of past lives used to be commonplace. Go back a few generations, and you find people talking about earlier lives with total certainty.

The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.

Bayes teaches us (1) never to assign perfect certainty to any such belief; (2) always to be prepared to update our credences when new evidence comes along; and (3) how exactly such evidence alters the credences we assign. It's a road map for coming closer and closer to the truth.

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What I believe is we're able to push the boundaries of our knowledge only so long as we keep our focus on phenomena itself, rejecting metaphysical conclusions and false certainty, however comforting they may be.

Opportunities are whispers, not foghorns. If we can't hear their soft rhythms—if we are too busy rushing about, waiting for thunderclaps of revelation, inspiration, and certainty—or if we can spot them but can't nurture them into real advantages, then we might as well be blind to them.

The galaxy is painted in black and white, he realized, feeling the truth and certainty of it deep in every bone. But from far enough away, it all looks gray.

It would be a very good thing if occasionally I thought I knew what I was doing.

No Aristotelian ever thought that what strikes me as self-evident cannot fail to be true. If I am enough of an idiot, the most errant nonsense may strike me as self-evident.

He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He looked the other way, Her face triggered through his heart, forcing him to look back, and admire that beauty!! Soon He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he'd been lucky enough to find her... Wait it was morning, the dream was actually over !!

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.