Quotes About Certainty

Incontrovertible truth.

If you are messing around all day and then scream for certainty, you're not going to get it. If you spend energy and do the work and develop that certainty, you'll get to where you need to be, even if you don't know exactly where that is.

I would put my million dollars up as well.

I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.

My mindset has changed. When I was fighting guys like Glover I was second-guessing myself. Am I the best in the world? Do I deserve to be up here. Now I know it.

But the word faith is better translated as "confidence" and "trust," because it is about something inside you and not directed toward something external.

Todo totalmente distinto. Porque lo anotado no es exacto. Nada de lo que se anota es exacto. No puede pretender nada. Ni siquiera precisión, aunque todo se consigne según el leal saber y entender, pensando saber algo sobre un asunto totalmente cierto. Siempre será, en el mejor de los casos, menos falso. Pero falso. Distinto. Por consiguiente, no verdadero.

Man is a wretched creature and death is a certainty - Thomas Bernhard

In the knowledge that nothing at all is certain and that nothing at all is perfect, we should, even with the greatest doubts, begin and continue whatever we have determined to do. If we give up each time even before we have started, we eventually find ourselves in desperation, and finally and ultimately we no longer get out of that desperation and are lost.

Compelled belief is no belief at all.

People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence

I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.

And so, standing before the aforesaid officiator, the two swore that at every other time of their lives till death took them, they would assuredly believe, feel, and desire precisely as they had believed, felt, and desired during the few preceding weeks. What was as remarkable as the undertaking itself was the fact that nobody seemed at all surprised at what they swore.

Well it's true.

It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty.

I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Coitus is random, children are definite.

I perceive , Sir , you are one of those who love an authority more than a reason

That was one of the advantages of his age, that he could be sure of his mastery in every moment.

We are most likely to get angry and excited in our opposition to some idea when we ourselves are not quite certain of our own position, and are inwardly tempted to take the other side

Man begegnet einem Vorschlage nur dann mit Erregtheit, wenn man sich in seinem Widerstande nicht sicher fühlt...

To place your trust in visible things is to live in despair.

The one thing that seems to me morally certain is that this was really a grace, and a great grace.