Quotes About Certainty

And Elvex said, I was the man. - In Robot dreams (Short story)

Baley distrusted overstatement and had no liking for the armchair deducer who discovered certainty rather than probability in the workings of logic.

And of those who were aware, there were dime classes. First, there were the many who knew little and were very confident.

A good Technician was rarely wrong. A top Technician was never wrong.

Un encadenamiento de razonamientosválidos sólo puede llevar a la determinación de la verdad.

When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.

Valamilyen garanciára szükségem van. – Szavamat adom. – Ami, ugyebár, fölbecsülhetetlen érték? – hajolt meg gúnyosan Pherl –, de azért az ön jelenléte, ugyebár, mégiscsak nagyobb biztosítékot jelentene!

She said, "I was just guessing." He said, "No, you weren't. Whatever it was, it wasn't just guessing.

It is on a Foundation victory that Siwenna's hopes depend. It is for a Foundation victory that my sons are sacrificed. And Hari Seldon does not precalculate the inevitable salvation of Siwenna as he does that of the Foundation. I have no certainty for my people – only hope.

He also said that nothing had to be true, but everything had to sound true.

If you believe in God, then He exists.

In my case, it's not so much wanting to live in Chile as it is the desire to recapture the certainty I feel there. That's my home ground.

For the oppressed peoples and classes, for the peoples and workers who have taken control of their destiny, Marxism is a shining path, a sun of hope and certainty that never sets, a sun that is always at its zenith.

I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

The central problem of our age is how to act decisively in the absence of certainty.

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.

A belief which does not spring from a conviction in the emotions is no belief at all.

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

Show me a person who is not an extremist about some things, who is a "middle-of-the-roader" in everything, and I will show you someone who is insecure.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.

Better be too credulous than too skeptical