Quotes About Certainty

In a perfect world, everything would either be black or white, right or wrong and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.

Aquilo que vem não pode ser evitado.

For if my study of human nature has taught me anything, it is that truth and conviction are not comfortable bedfellows, and what one believes will often cast out that which is true.

we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid one are full of confidence.

We know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.

El problema con el mundo es que la gente inteligente está llena de dudas, mientras que la gente estúpida está llena de certezas.

Faith is all right for those who have it. Just don't load it on me. I have more faith in my plumber than I do in the eternal being. Plumbers do a good job. They keep the shit flowing.

she likes that and I like it too because to/make a thing true all you've/got to do is believe

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence. -- Dünyan?n sorunu, ak?ll? insanlar ÅŸüphelerle doluyken, aptallar?n özgüvenle dolu olmas?d?r.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence." ? Charles Bukowski

TRUTH IS THE STABILIZING FORCE OF LIFE.

ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge:

But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy.

Well! this time next year, we will know all of which we are now ignorant.

I don't know facts, and probably there aren't any to know. Whatever crazy thing people want to believe, that's what they call it, a fact.

How do you know that? Have you been there to see? And if you had been there to see, and had seen none, that would not prove that there were none ... And no one has a right to say that no water babies exist till they have seen no water babies existing, which is quite a different thing, mind, from not seeing water babies.

Every day in which I do not penetrate more deeply into the knowledge of God's word in holy scripture is a lost day for me. I can only move forward with certainty upon the firm ground of the word of God. " —MEDITATING ON THE WORD

Without periodic nuclear testing, weaponeers argued, they could not be certain that the weapons in the nuclear stockpile would work. Nuclear bombs, like any other machines, decay over time.

a mathematician could show how a triangle's angles sum to 180 degrees, or any other geometric fact. On the other hand, calculus was based on faith.

Never trust a man who thinks his religion gives him all the answers.

Are you a psychiatrist?" "I don't think so." He shuffles forward, heading towards a side bay that, as I approach it, turns out to be a day room of some sort. "Then I'm not Napoleon Bonaparte!

Ah, the warm fuzzies of decisive action.

A truth presented by Satan himself is just as true as a truth stated by God.