Quotes About Certainty

There's something very satisfying about numbers. Numbers are what they are. They're very straightforward. Unlike people.

There's something very satisfying about numbers. Numbers are what they are. They are very straightforward. Unlike people.

La fe es creer en lo que sabemos que no existe»

Mientras tanto lo que se percibe en sus diarios (de Tolstói) es un hombre dividido: por un lado, lleno de certezas sobre la religión, sobre los defectos de la mujer (la culpa a de todos los desgarres del mundo contemporáneo), sobre la cultura (que sólo florece, decía, cuando no hay moral). Y, por el otro, lleno de dudas.

Y eso se volvía más evidente conforme pasaba el tiempo, porque la mejor prueba de que una persona no va a volver es que no vuelva, ¿no?

Lamento que este usted subido en la atalaya de sus propias convicciones. Desde ahí la caída es mortal de necesidad.

as one looks instinctively at the clock: that must be right. That will tell me where I am

How much evidence would it take to convince us that something we consider improbable has actually happened? When does a hypothesis cross the line from impossibility to improbability and even to probability or virtual certainty?

knowing something is not believing...

Some questions are not meant to be asked as long as the answers are right.

First you must be able to trust the one who gave that promise.

truth he had had his doubts about

To doubt everything and to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; each saves us from thinking.

Wir haben nichts mehr, an das wir nicht glauben könnten. Mathematisch folgt daraus, dass wir an alles glauben. Alles gleich gültig.

Never talk yourself out of knowing you're in love or into thinking that you are.

Are you certain you'll be happy?" she asked. Eloise smiled ruefully. "It's a little late to wonder, don't you think?" "It might be too late to do anything about it, but it's never too late to wonder.

I would give the world to have one more person for whom I would lay down my life," he said. And then Hyacinth realized that some things did come in a flash. And there were some things one simply knew without possessing the ability to explain them. Because in that moment she knew that she was going to marry this man. No one else would do.

The loss of hope versus the certainty of truth. It's not an easy judgment to make.

because he was quite certain it would be nearly impossible to live with her, but somehow he knew that it wouldn't be at all difficult to love her.

Her hayatta bir dönüm noktas? vard?r.Bu öyle muazzam ,keskin ve belirgin bir and?r ki insan kendini göÄŸsünden vurulmuÅŸ gibi hisseder,nefesi kesilir ve bilir...Åžüphenin en ufak gölgesi olmaks?z?n hayat?n?n bir daha asla ayn? olmayaca??n? kesinlikle bilir.

That seemed to cover a lot of life, he'd come to realize. Proving something right wasn't the same as proving the opposite wrong.

The loss of hope versus the certainty of truth.

En la vida de toda persona hay un momento crucial, decisivo. Un momento tan fundamental, tan fuerte y nítido que uno se siente como si le hubieran golpeado el pecho, dejándolo sin aliento. Y sabe, sabe con la más absoluta certeza, sin la menor sombra de duda, que su vida nunca volverá a ser igual.

He knew it the way he knew the earth was round and her eyes were blue and that two plus two would always always be four.