Quotes About Certainty

There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.

Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst. That the best things corrupted are the worst.

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy.

A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Of that there is no manner of doubt—No probable, possible shadow of doubt—No possible doubt whatever.

People imagine that hope has degrees, but I think not. There is hope and there is no hope.

This earth, burnished by hearing the name, is so certain of love, that the sky bends unceasingly down, to greet its own light.

I believe in everything until it's disproved.

He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he'd been lucky enough to find her.

Of all the things a body loves, predictability is one of them.

If faith were rational , it wouldn't be -by definition- faith.

I don't know if it was love or an illusion. I don't know if there's ever a way to be certain.

There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.

I'd like to know that your love Is love I can be sure of.

Real love isn't ever ambivalent.

How do you know when you're finished making love?

And you'll always love me won't you? Yes And the rain won't make any difference? No

If ruling our world stems from developing certainty in our sanity, how do we discover it? The Shambhala teachings instruct us to "put our mind of fearfulness in the cradle of loving-kindnes."

That of all people, it should be him; that took her aback. That the heart should settle on somebody like him; that surprised her. But she was so certain about it, so certain.

No amount of promises can guarantee love

Opinions may be mistaken; love never is.

Per un castoro – possiamo averne una ragionevole certezza – i mutui e i divorzi non esistono, mentre le montagne e i laghi esistono eccome.