Quotes About Certainty

knowing often felt preferable to not knowing. It provided the illusion of control.

A reasonable person believes, in short, that each of his beliefs is true and that some of them are false.

When you reason correctly, as Silver does, you find that you always think you're right, but you don't think you're always right.

It's not like that, as we've seen. Mathematicians aren't crazy, and we aren't aliens, and we aren't mystics. What's true is that the sensation of mathematical understanding-of suddenly knowing what's going on, with total certainty, all the way to the bottom-is a special thing, attainable in few if any other places in life. You feel you've reached into the universe's guts and put your hand on the wire. It's hard to describe to people who haven't experienced it.

Mathematics is the study of things that come out a certain way because there is no other way they could possibly be.

Math is a science of not being wrong about things,

Math is a science of not being wrong about things, its techniques and habits hammered out by centuries of hard work and argument.

The lessons of mathematics are simple ones and there are no numbers in them: that there is structure in the world; that we can hope to understand some of it and not just gape at what our senses present to us; that our intuition is stronger with a formal exoskeleton than without one. And that mathematical certainity is one thing, the softer convictions we find attached to us in everyday life another, and we should keep track of the difference if we can.

anything is possible but probably not that

Uno de los problemas de hoy es que los necios y los fanáticos están siempre seguros de sí mismos, mientras que los sabios están llenos de dudas.

Tengo la razón, la tengo siempre, y estoy equivocada.

Sim, só havia uma solução, única e certa: Vadinho retornar para donde viera, só assim estariam garantidas a honestidade da esposa e a testa do droguista.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

The truth. Why are we so obsessed with the truth—begging for it, asking for it, demanding it, when all we really want to do is confirm our own vision of reality?

Bu yarasan?n seni çok sevdiÄŸine inan?yor musun?" "Evet, seviyor." "Yürekten mi?" "Bundan hiç kuÅŸkum yok." "Öyleyse arkandan geleceÄŸine de inan. Ortaya ç?kmakta gecikebilir. Yine de bir gün seni kesinlikle bulacakt?r.

Nu încape nici o îndoial?,ÅŸi respingerea poate fi umbra unei mângâieri.

El caso es que la realidad, como el paisaje, tiene infinitas perspectivas, todas ellas igualmente ciertas y auténticas. La única perspectiva falsa es la que afirma ser la única.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Nuestras convicciones más arraigadas, más indubitables, son las más sospechosas. Ellas constituyen nuestro límite, nuestros confines, nuestra prisión" (José Ortega y Gasset)

Astrónomos hubo que se negaron a mirar el cielo a través del telescopio, temiendo ver desbaratados sus errores más firmes.

Ángel de la jiribilla, ruega por nosotros. Y sonríe. Obliga a que suceda. Enseña una de tus alas, lee: Realízate, cúmplete, sé anterior a la muerte. Repite: Lo imposible al actuar sobre lo posible, engendra un posible en la infinidad. Ya la imagen ha creado una causalidad, es el alba de la era poética entre nosotros. Ahora ya sabemos que la única certeza se engendra en lo que nos rebasa.

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Truth must be found in reality, not systems.