Quotes About Certainty

You gave me a look as if to say, 'I know exactly what I'm doing.

So Hermione was the siren, and Lucy was the trusty friend, and all was right with the world. Or if not right, then at least quite predictable.

was somehow even more heartbreaking. "I wonder if it would be easier," she said, "knowing for sure." "I don't know. The loss of hope versus the certainty of truth. It's not an easy judgment to make.

For me to want to be an actor was an improbable idea. I wasn't beautiful or pretty in any conventional way. I wasn't an ingenue at 22. But I was always certain of it and certain of its power. I felt the power when I went to the theater at 9, 10, 12 and 14.

I don't think you can question your instinct; you should always trust it.

I'm a mathematician by education, but I have this other thing. A gut instinct.

The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts. We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom.

It was hard to believe that it had only been a little more than one standard Earth month since he'd first come to claim her. Back then he hadn't been certain he would ever win her over. And now she was his—his forever and Baird never intended to let her go.

Attitude' was the word they used for someone who knew what they liked.

She knew exactly, sort of, what she was going to do.

Attitude" was the word they used for someone who knew what they liked.

A experiência de ser acordada de um sono profundo pela peça – e logo depois lançada a uma certeza tão intensa do poder das mulheres, das pessoas e do mundo, por conta dos movimentos que gerou – fez com que eu, artista, me tornasse ativista política.

The problem with the world is that intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence"

Our core beliefs need to be seen for what they are: deeply held assumptions about reality that our particular life circumstances have conditioned us to accept as absolute truth.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts.

Faith begins where the will of God is known

Water, water everywhere, and all the faith-only arguments did shrink.

And if you show me a mathematical formula, all you are showing me is a piece of paper with strange markings on it, and I have no way of knowing not only whether the markings are actually there, but whether the piece of paper exists.

Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

Faith Martin

Faith Martin

La única certidumbre sobre la naturaleza de la traición, se decía Bora, es que, a diferencia de la ofensa, es irreparable.

veces es preferible afrontar la peor de las certezas que estar condenado a una incertidumbre perpetua. Todas