Quotes About Certainty

It is not important if the answer is correct; just the answer itself makes us feel safe.

Tener fe es creer incondicionalmente.

To have faith is to believe unconditionally.

Vanessa Rey chose the words for her own headstone, taking her theme from the Bhagavad Gita. Certain is death, for the living, certain is life, for the dead. Think about that.

As discussed in Chapter 1, there is a human tendency to desire and even artificially create a sense of certainty. It is conceivable that the point here is not that we do not see the problems in our processes, but rather that we do not want to see them because that would undermine the sense of certainty we have about how our factory is working. It would mean that some of our assumptions, some things we have worked for and are attached to, may not be true.

You were right, said the Master impressed by the neatness of Korovyov's work, when you said: no documents, no person. So that means I don't exist since I don't have any documents.

A pan zgodziÅ' siÄ™ z kolegÄ…? - zainteresowaÅ' siÄ™ nieznajomy i odwróciÅ' siÄ™ w prawo, do Bezdomnego. -Na sto procent! - potwierdziÅ' poeta, który lubiÅ' wyra?a? siÄ™ zawile i metaforycznie.

I zacz?? klaska?, ale klaska? w zupe?nym osamotnieniu, jego ?miech wyra?a? pewno?? siebie, ale w oczach nie mia? te pewno?ci za grosz, patrzy?y one raczej b?agalnie.

Allow me to ask you, then, how man can govern if he cannot plan for even so ridiculously short a span as a thousand years or so, if, in fact, he cannot guarantee his own next day?

a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.

I believe!" Margarita whispered solemnly. "I believe! Something will happen! It cannot fail, for why should I be punished with lifelong torment? I admit that I have lied and deceived and lived a secret life, hidden from others. But surely this does not deserve such cruel punishment. . . . Something is sure to happen. Nothing lasts forever. Besides, my dream was prophetic, I am certain it was. . .

It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth.

Man can only be certain about the present moment. But is that quite true either? Can he really know the present? Is he in a position to make any judgment about it? Certainly not. For how can a person with no knowledge of the future understand the meaning of the present? If we do not know what future the present is leading us toward, how can we say whether this present is good or bad, whether it deserves our concurrence, or our suspicion, or our hatred?

Es muss sein. Es muss sein.

What is flirtation? One might say that it is behavior leading another to believe that sexual intimacy is possible, while preventing that possibility from becoming a certainty. In other words, flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.

Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.

All predictions are wrong, that's one of the few certainties granted to mankind.

Everyone is wrong about the future. Man can only be certain about the present moment. But is that quite true either? Can he really know the present? Is he in a position to make any judgment about it? Certainly not. For how can a person with no knowledge of the future understand the meaning of the present? If we do not know what future the present is leading us toward, how can we say whether this present is good or bad, whether it deserves our concurrence, or our suspicion, or our hatred?

Anyone who starts doubting details will end by doubting life itself.

In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties.

We can never establish with certainty which part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions--love, antipathy, charity, or malice--and what part is predetermined by the constant power play among individuals.

Jaromil had always regarded the future as an awesome mystery. It comprised everything unknown, and for that reason it lured and terrified. It was the opposite of certainty, the opposite of home.

Too much faith is the worst ally

All he knew about old age was that it a time when a person had passed his maturity; when fate had ended; when there was no longer any need to fear that terrible mystery called the future; when every love than came along was certain and final.