Quotes About Certainty

The rat is always right.

something may be fully accepted out of faith, yet it may be empty, hollow, and false; but something else may not be fully accepted out of faith, yet it may be factual, true, and unmistaken.

After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

One of the ultimate expressions of arrogance is to think that we know ahead of time what is about to happen, and to let that cause us to become ineffective in our assigned purpose and call.

Many present-day movements have made a virtue out of staying the course without a God experience. To make matters worse, those who speak subjectively of an experience are often considered suspect, and even dangerous.

The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them.

The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them." ( The Decider , July 21, 2007)

They're good at this. Don't be so sure that your version of reality is better because it's newer.

If the argument is, "Well, that was all part of the plan," then I have to ask: How can you take the lack of evidence of a plan as evidence of a plan? That makes no sense.

Is that a True Story, Papa said. Well I won't say it's a Fact Story, Calley said, but Yes Sir I will say it is for god dam sure a True Story.

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.

What's funny is, I was always certain that I couldn't be a director because there are things about the physics of camera and lighting that I fundamentally cannot wrap my head around.

I said Donald Trump could never be elected, confidently fueled by the empirical data of professional polling, a certainty in the vital necessity of field operations, and the knowledge his own campaign team (even on the night of the election) was ratting out the shambolic train wreck his campaign had been. I was wrong.

Joe Wright called me and I also had some trepidation along those lines but he said no, it would work. He had a very clear and specific idea of what he wanted to do.

I believe in the floor. I put it in place and I walk on it. Faith is a floor. If you don't work at making it for yourself, you have nothing to walk on.

Very few things in the world are certain, but morning is one of them.

once you outgrow that fetching habit of faith you will display a ferocious authority.

I was reminded of Lord Kelvin's observation, overbroad but nevertheless thought-provoking: "When you cannot express it in number, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind.

When you cannot express it in number, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind.

What we assume will be temporary often becomes permanent; what we assume is permanent often proves temporary.

Her great desire, in fact, was to have something more solid, more tangible than love to rely upon.