Quotes About Certainty

Better not to think at all than to think halfway.

Nobody is easier to fool than the person who is convinced that he is right

It must be a wonderful thing to be so sure that you love somebody.

Perhaps nothing can be certain in this world, I said. But at least we can believe in something.

When it came down to it, though, could anything be completely correct, or completely incorrect? We lived in a world where rain might fall thirty percent, or seventy percent, of the time. Truth was probably no different. There could be thirty percent or seventy percent truth.

Nobody's easier to fool, Ushikawa thought, than the person who is convinced that he is right.

I don't know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I'm pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots.

Sometimes I get the feeling that everything that happened to me was some kind of illusion. It's as though something happened to make me think that things happened that never really happened at all. But I know for sure that they did happen.

Así pensaba cuando tenía tu edad, y sigo pensando lo mismo. Tal vez porque no he madurado, o tal vez porque siempre he tenido razón.

me want to have that kind of easy faith, the kind that is like breathing. Faith so clear you don't even think about it, you just feel it.

Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream.

There's something very reassuring... about the written record.

What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it's true, but they don't have any evidence that it is true!

I may be wrong, but I am never in doubt! And anyone who has been around me for even a minute understands that my self-confidence and self-esteem is sometimes overwhelming!

You can't criticize geometry. It's never wrong.

In math, you're either right or you're wrong.

There's something you do when you're completely confident that just can't be replicated when you know you're doing something wrong.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

I am an optimist by nature and I reserve the right to be wrong.

And I'm the type of person, if I ain't wrong, I'm gonna stand on that.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

If somebody else thinks something that you don't believe in, just think they're wrong and you're right and keep going. That's pretty much the way I always think.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.