Quotes About Certainty

Confident people are prepared people.

I know I'm right," he said. "If you disagree with me, you're wrong.

Moins on a de connaissances, plus on a de convictions.

Une solution qui vous démolit vaut mieux que n'importe quelle incertitude

I suppose that nature works on such a hopeful basis that we believe against ourselves that things will be as they ought to be, not as we should know they will be.

Well, I shall tell you. My thesis is this, I want you to believe. To believe what? To believe in things that you cannot.

Fe es aquello que nos permite creer en cosas que sabemos que no son ciertas.

I heard once of an American who so defined faith: 'that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.

I suppose that nature works on such a hopeful basis that we believe against ourselves that things will be as they ought to be, not as we should know that they will be.

La vida es después de todo una espera por algo distinto de lo que estamos haciendo y la muerte es en lo único que podemos confiar con certeza.

I heard once of an American who so defined faith: 'that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.' For one, I follow that man.

He had a very young man's belief in the absolute rightness of his own cause and the absolute wrongness of everyone else's.

Two memories. Two bright minds which remember past events differently. It is an awkward situation. There exists no third person to say which of us is correct.

How could I say for certain that I wasn't, if I couldn't say for certain that a curtain wasn't a mountain range.

La visión seduce con su apariencia de certeza. Ves las cosas y estás convencido de que la realidad es sólo ésa, no te haces preguntas, no indagas porque te conformas con lo que ves. —Quien ve no ve nada —repetía mi padre.

It's not enough merely to believe there is a God. You must believe in the God who is there.

I have promised her the truth, knowing that the only real truth comes from God.

How I Know What I Know

When I propose, angel, trust me, you'll know it.

I'm never going to get married. You're crazy. Buddy brightened. You'll change your mind. No. My mind's made up.

With that strange knowing that comes over me, like a clairvoyance, I know that I am sure of myself and my enormous and alarmingly timeless love for you; which will always be.

A skeptic, I would ask for consistency first of all.

I am disabused of all faith, and see too clearly.

Water will run by rule; the actual sun / Will scrupulously rise and set; / No little man lives in the exacting moon / And that is that, is that, is that.