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Quotes About Certainty

She knew what he had in mind.He'll propose in Scotland on my birthday.There was no doubt as to what her answer would be.
~ Jana Oliver, Foretold
The strange part about a person's lack of trust is that it often comes from not trusting themselves.
~ David W. Earle
Em recorda el que va dir Montaigne: «No hi ha res que es cregui amb tanta fermesa com el que es coneix menys».
~ Miriam Toews
De l'única cosa de què podem estar segurs és que el temps existeix, sí o no? Perquè va desapareixent. I una cosa que no existeix no desapareix.
~ Miriam Toews
He would be admitting to himself that life has suddenly become very short, very precious, that soon he'll no longer exist, that it'll be over. Of course he knew that, we know that, we say it, but to really, really know it, to be certain of it, is more than he can be right now. His bed is safe. Sleep is easy. He's not a stupid man.
~ Miriam Toews
Faith, it is said, is better than belief, because belief is when someone else does the thinking.
~ Mitch Albom
What happened next depends on how much you believe.
~ Mitch Albom
If you believe it, you don't need proof.
~ Mitch Albom
Does this prove what we believe? If you believe it, you don't need proof.
~ Mitch Albom
Doubt is how you find God
~ Mitch Albom
If you believe it, you don't need proof.
~ Mitch Albom
Faith, it is said, it's better than belief, because belief is when someone else does the thinking.
~ Mitch Albom
What else is belief but direction?
~ Mohsin Hamid
It reveals opinions and attitudes that are malleable, showing the plasticity of what in any given present moment one typically presents as a rock of certainty.
~ Mohsin Hamid
Saeed was certain he was in love. Nadia was not certain what exactly she was feeling, but she was certain it had force.
~ Mohsin Hamid
3. IS THE BOOK TRUE, IN WHOLE OR PART?
~ Mortimer J. Adler
RULE 9. YOU MUST BE ABLE TO SAY, WITH REASONABLE CERTAINTY, "I UNDERSTAND," BEFORE YOU CAN SAY ANY ONE OF THE FOLLOWING THINGS: "I AGREE," OR "I DISAGREE," OR "I SUSPEND JUDGMENT.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
You must be able to say, with reasonable certainty, I understand, before you can say any one of the following things: I agree, or I disagree, or I suspend Judgment.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the most certain form of knowledge, not a tentative opinion.
~ Mortimer Jerome Adler
You'll never have to do it again. I promise.
~ Mur Lafferty
Matt had no trouble believing her.
~ Nancy Farmer
The one certainty in life is that it changes.
~ Nancy Richardson Fischer
He turned a cold certain look over them like the sweep of a scythe. "For however many of them will be left," he said.
~ Naomi Novik
He wasn't unkind, but he had all Sarkan's obsessive hunger for explanation, with none of his willingness to bend. If Ballo couldn't find it in a book, that meant it couldn't be so, and if he found it in three books, that meant it was the unvarnished truth.
~ Naomi Novik