Quotes About Certainty

Se zgâia la imaginea ei în ferestrele lucioase ale magazinelor de parc? ar fi vrut s? se asigure, clip? de clip?, c? exist? în continuare.

Of course he will, he's a mathematics professor -he won't want to leave any loose ends.

I felt moved and tender and perfectly certain about what I was going to do.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree : you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say 'this we know'.

certain of certain certainties.......

We know too much, and are convinced of too little.

When it falls on your head, then you are knowing it is a rock.

A man whose wisdom is true does not sit in waiting for the world to come at him piece by piece for proving its existence!

He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder." More

Utan tvivel är man inte klok.

Once she was certain, she didn't waiver. I had to make her stop for water or a bite to eat. She obeyed, but she was restless. As clear as if she spoke to me, she was saying, Very well, I know you want to keep my strength up, but scent fades, you know! And I'd say, I know, girl, but you're what I have and I'm going to take care of you.

Don't threaten someone unless you're certain you can carry out the threat.

If you believe it, Khaldun had said, I could never convince you otherwise. If you do not, nothing I tell you could sway you. I am the one who should be asking you: Is it the truth? No

I BELIEVE!!!!!!! - Johnny

my lack of faith was wearing thin

When something is all in your mind, people tend to think that it's willful, that it's something you could control if only you tried harder or if you had been trained differently. I'm hoping that the newfound certainty that autism is in your brain and in your genes will affect public attitudes.

No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.

I'm not. Certain. About lots of things. I just know where I belong.

To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. I'm adding up the evidence on either side, and I'm seeing the evidence of there not being a God is overwhelming compared to the evidence for there being a God.

Nunca será posible llegar solo mediante la razón pura a alguna verdad absoluta».5

The point of seeing both sides isn't to hover between them but to be able to come down on the right side with the right degree of conviction.

We all have to make some basic assumptions that we cannot afford to doubt. Belief in our very sanity is in some sense a leap of faith.

The beliefs of atheists would have to require at least as much faith as those of religious believers. But they don't.

Atheism is not a faith position because it is belief in nothing beyond that which is supported by evidence and argument. Religious belief is a faith position because it goes beyond what there is evidence or argument for. That is why faith requires something 'special' that ordinary belief does not have.