Quotes About Certainty

The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it

Rule #1. The very fact that you fear something is solid evidence that it is not happening.

How can it be so unclear to her when it's like the fingers on my hand to me?

And it was like I knew , and that certainty planted itself in my belly like a warm secret.

It takes a certain kind of naiveté, or perhaps just stupidity, to know how things will end and still hope otherwise.

There's a difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it.

I had faith, and if I had faith I couldn't worry.

Spo?ítala jsem to. Jsem si na osmdesát tÃ…â"¢i procent jistá, že m?j výpo?et je na stoprocent správný.

Stiamo davvero per fare sesso?» chiese Ashlyn senza fiato, la voce vibrante di timida speranza. «Oh, sì» rispose Maddox avanzando verso di lei. «Puoi starne certa, bellezza.»

Do you doubt the Ten, my lord?

Irene glanced round at the three men. Somehow they shared a similar demeanor, whatever their reaction to this new information. Perhaps it was a kind of aristocratic poise, an in-built certainty that the world was going to cooperate with their needs. She wished she shared it.

I think the time for blind trust is long over. Now I need answers.

Irene generally disliked debating philosophy or being told that answers were true 'from a certain point of view'.

Arrogant and right is surely better than humble and wrong.

Looking back on Rome's success, it is all too easy to conclude that its victories were preordained. It is almost as if Rome arose with consummate certainty from the seven hills, gaining such a height that seemingly it could not be challenged. But in almost every phase of Rome's history there were crises

Je le voie, mais je ne le crois pas.

First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

I do not have easy days at home now and I drift between fear and helplessness in sunny rooms where it is unspeakably cold. Strange shudders of transformation, bodily experienced to the point of vulnerability, visions of mysteries until the certainty of having died, ecstasies to the point of stony petrifaction, and a continuation of dreaming sad dreams.

Now, of course, most oratory deals with matters of probability, not certainty, and most evidence is in the realm of the probable, not the scientifically demonstrable

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

the time will come, and come soon, in which we shall have a knowledge of God and mind that is not less certain than that of figures and numbers, and in which the invention of machines will be no more difficult than the construction of problems in geometry.

Believe me, the world always was, and always will be the same, as long as men are men.