Quotes About Certainty

Mi resolución es tan firme como el destino

Nada hay más doloroso para el espíritu humano, tras la excitación que provoca la rápida sucesión de los acontecimientos, como esa calma mortal de apatía y certidumbre que la sigue, y priva al alma de toda esperanza y temor.

Alas! Victor, when falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?

Nada más penoso para la mente humana que la calma absoluta de la inactividad y la certidumbre que se siguen tras una rápida serie de sucesos que han excitado los sentimientos, y despojan el alma de esperanzas y de temores a un mismo tiempo.

Almost spent, as I was, by fatigue and the dreadful suspense I endured for several hours, this sudden certainty of life rushed like a flood of warm joy to my heart, and tears gushed from my eyes. How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!

when falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of happiness?

I read my books with diligence, and mounting skill, and gathering certainty. I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.

Sometimes, on the very brink of certainty, I failed; yet still I clung to the hope which the next day or the next hour might realise.

Nothing is more painful to the human mind, than, after the feelings have worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows, and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.

Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul of both hope and fear

Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul of both hope and fear

Once you question your own belief, it's over. -Naruto Uzumaki

There is only one right answer to any given question at any given time, and how can I tell when the time has come to know the difference?

When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave.

There is no such thing as an aspiring writer. You are a writer. Period.

I have no faith at all, I only hold conviction.

In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you have known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and certainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe. No child is afraid of nature; it is your fear of men that will vanish, the fear that has stunted your soul, the fear you acquired in your early encounters with the incomprehensible, the unpredictable, the contradictory, the arbitrary, the hidden, the faked, the irrational in men.

This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.

em không th? ch?p nh?n cái ná»­a v?i, cái g?n nhÆ°, cái g?n g?n, cái ? gi?a.

Of course I'm all right, professor. I had to be. A is A.- John Galt

We must know that we may know.

Dagny leaned back in her chair. The short sentence was a shock. It was not merely relief: it was the sudden realization that nothing else was necessary to guarantee that it would be done; she needed no proofs, no questions, no explanations; a complex problem could rest safely on three syllables pronounced by a man who knew what he was saying.

The joke is on both of you. Your sanction is the only source of certainty he has.

Roark spoke quietly. He was the only man in the room who felt certain of his own words.