Quotes About Certainty

Statistics cannot prove anything with certainty. Instead, the power of statistical inference derives from observing some pattern or outcome and then using probability to determine the most likely explanation for that outcome.

It's weird to be a human. We get to think about things, we get to wonder. It seems like quite a privileged position in the universe. And I wouldn't give it up for certainty because when you're certain you stop being curious. And here's the one thing I know about the thing you're certain about; you're wrong.

If we can figure everything out, if we can be so smart that we can fit everything into some sort of a plan or order, a complete intellectual understanding, then perhaps we won't be threatened.

Nothing puzzles God

Always have an answer - even if you change your mind five minutes later.

I don't believe in miracles.

We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right.

You must have the modesty of saying, this is a bloody good idea but I probably won't believe it in five years' time.

You are lost the moment you know what the result will be.

That's the thing about Michael Moore, when you read his stuff, he's so sure he's right about everything; even when he's wrong, he's entertaining.

I don't think past experiences guarantee anything and I don't think you can rest on your morals.

Barack Obama is one of those people who are often wrong but never in doubt.

If you have strongly held opinions, you are opinionated; if you don't, you lack conviction: either way, there is something wrong with you.

there's no need for algebra where two and two make five.

What was it, token of all our wordless and incongruent hunger that one saw here, that has never been expressed, that was so imminent, so exasperating, so impalpably near, as if the opiate of finality we had sought for our exacerbated nerves, the complete nurture we needed to stop the jaws of Cerberus was here almost within our grasp, an inch away from hope, a hand's breadth off from certainty.

My instincts have never lies to me.

enough pieces of cheese and you can be fairly sure that the

There was the single abiding certainty that they would never be at a loss for things to carry.

for all the ambiguities of Vietnam, all the mysteries and unknowns, there was at least the single abiding certainty that they would never be at a loss for things to carry.

This next part,' Sanders said quietly, 'you won't believe.' 'Probably not,' I said. 'You won't. And you know why?' He gave me a long, tired smile. 'Because it happened. Because every word is absolutely dead-on true.

All you are is what you were given. All you were given is the certainty of self.

Truth only exists for those who cling to it. Sosuke Aizen

That's damned likely," Gant interjected

The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and the tyranny of the dull mind forever threatens -- but our lives are not as limited as we think they are, all things are possible, laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.