Quotes About Certainty

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.

Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.

Often wrong, but never in doubt. Once you decide what you need to do and how to go about it, you can't afford to second-guess yourself. You just do it." The

We had a saying in the army," Tom Buckwell said. "Often wrong, but never in doubt. Once you decide what you need to do and how to go about it, you can't afford to second-guess yourself. You just do it.

Skepticism is thus a resting-place for human reason, where it can reflect upon its dogmatic wanderings and make survey of the region in which it finds itself, so that for the future it may be able to choose its path with more certainty. But it is no dwelling-place for permanent settlement. Such can be obtained only through perfect certainty in our knowledge, alike of the objects themselves and of the limits within which all our knowledge of objects is enclosed.

Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.

Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.

I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith. ? Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

probability is a truth, known however through insufficient grounds, the knowledge of which is therefore deficient, but not deceptive [...]

Coloro che dicono che il mondo andrà sempre così come è andato finora contribuiscono a far sì che l'oggetto della loro predizione si avveri

Triviality and certainty are Kinderkrankheiten of knowledge.

De repente echa a correr por su vida De repente tiene una palabra que es suficiente De repente da todo por sentado De repente sabe exactamente lo que quiere La verdad es un proceso que se quiere ocultar pero nadie puede ocultar un fragmentado proceso

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed. – Voltaire

My certainty that deep down I'm a free man. It's a constant, precious possession, and whether I keep it or lose it is up to me and no one else. I desperately want the insanity we're living through to end. I desperately want what has begun to finish. In a word, I desperately want this tragedy to be over and for us to try to survive it, that's all. What's important is to live; Primum vivere. One day at a time. To survive, to wait, to hope.

Doubts can lead to deeper faith by forcing us to look more closely at what we believe. And why.

Even what we are most certain of we know only in an illusory form.

She was a part, an evidence, of some pure uncracked unfissured confidence in the good which was never there for me again.

I think Otto will be rather relieved to be certain that you know. He doesn't enjoy deception. I choose the words carefully. He hasn't the least objection to deception. He just doesn't like the process of being found out. It's bad for his nerves

I can't believe in your other attachment.

Are you asking me or telling me?

Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them.

If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.