Quotes About Certainty

In all my life I've never felt as right and certain as when I'm with him.

Are you going to marry her?" I would know such a thing as that," Clarence says, "only well after the fact.

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

Self-assurance reassures others.

As the old saying goes: With great power comes the total fuckin' certainty that you're gonna turn into a cunt.

Sometimes I believe...Sometimes I really do believe.

The visible becomes inevitable...

I'm a librarian," he said. "I always know what I'm talking about.

I'm a librarian. I always know what I'm talking about

Mr Powell raised an eyebrow. 'I'm a librarian' he said. 'I always know what I'm talking about.

More broadly, formal logic of the sort we have been talking about does only one thing well: it allows us to take knowledge of which we are certain and apply rules that are always valid to deduce new knowledge of which we are also certain.

The level of confidence you hold in your ability to perform a task or skill is directly related to the level of certainty you hold in your mind about your ability to do it.

It's a done deal; you couldn't screw it up if you tried.

whether you agree with it or not. The truth is not subject to your interpretation.

When you throw a tennis ball in the air, you can count on it coming down.

I spent the first twenty years of my life waiting for two men I was reasonably certain would never come back: my daddy and Jesus. At least with Jesus I knew he wasn't gone because of something I did

Certainty of success leads to boredom, and doubt creates anxiety. Depression results from certain doubt: the assessment that the gap between real and ideal can never be bridged.

But this is not that kind of story, the kind meant to explain things. It simply tells things as they are, and as you know there is no explanation for how things are, at least none that would make any difference and allow them to be something else.

Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.

We are trained to believe and not to know.

Maybe, she thought, it was because it was still too new. It's foolish to speak of your happiness before you're sure you have it.

But then again, I was pretty certain I'd make more mistakes, so I didn't dwell on the one I'd just made too long. This is another thing I'll put in my arsonist's guide: if you make a mistake, don't dwell on it too long, because you'll make more of them.

When we say we know something in our bones, we mean we don't know yet how we know what we know. This is what we mean by "bones.

What will happen, will happen.