Quotes About Certainty

here I'm finally doing this thing that I've known I should be doing since I was in eleventh grade. I was certain, like all of us were, that we were doing the right thing.

The very triteness of it seemed to ensure its likelihood.

Under the circumstances, skepticism had felt like a kind of madness; to choose belief was the only way forward.

When people think they have discovered or earned a certain knowledge on their own, they are more apt to hold on to it.

You sure?" O'Toole asked. "I don't want to shortchange you." "I'm sure." "Okay, then." O'Toole began to walk away again when Bosch stopped him. "What was the other thing? You said a couple

called Hector Villabona and confirmed that

Yes, I'm fine. I feel good, actually. Now that I know." "I know what you mean. I remember the time when I decided for good. When I said fuck it, this is what I do.

him in '93, so there is no reason to believe he

collected this myself." "You have my word." "And you have mine." Vance nodded and there did not seem to be anything else to say.

it and he says he wasn't. I also knew where I was going. I knew it leveled off up there. He didn't.

believe me or care, then I don't have a chance.

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known.

After all, the trouble with what the scientists said was that they were always saying something different. This year one idea, next year something else. Scientific opinion was ever changing, like the fashions of women's dress, while the firm and fixed date 4004 BC invited the attention of those seeking greater verity.

Alone, Malcolm unrolled the strip of paper that had come with the sample. It was a piece of paper torn from a yellow legal pad. In block printing, it said: I WAS RIGHT AND YOU WERE WRONG.

But absence of proof is not proof of absence.

if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.

Religion explains what man cannot explain. But when I see something before my eyes, and my religion hastens to assure me that I am mistaken, that I do not see it at all . . . No, I may no longer be a Quaker, after all.

Montaigne said three hundred years ago, 'Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known.

They believed that prediction was just a function of keeping track of things. If you knew enough, you could predict anything

Pero la ausencia de pruebas no es prueba de ausencia.

Como bien sabes, una cosa puede ser precisa o imprecisa, independientemente de tus opiniones.

Uno no viene a un sitio lleno de pollos venenosos si no está seguro de que los vehículos responderán.

If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I cant go on spoiling your life any longer. I dont think two people could have been happier than we have been.