Quotes About Certainty

Just about everything in this life is treacherous, ready to twist and shape-shift at any second; it seemed to me that the whole world would be a different place if you had someone you were certain of, certain to the bone, or if you could be that to someone else.

I said I know my shot when I see it. Sometimes you don't even have to see it. Sometimes you feel it coming, screaming down the sky towards you like a meteor.

Trey says, with absolute bedrock certainty, "He wouldn't do that." Cal reached the point a long time ago where those words make him tired for all of humanity. All the innocents say that, and believe it tot he bone, right p until the moment when they can't any more. My husband would never do that to our children, my baby ain't no thief. Cal feels like he ought to stand on a street corner handing out warnings, little pieces of paper that just say: Anyone could do anything.

What I wanted was someone I belonged with, beyond any doubt or denial; someone where every glance was a guarantee, solid proof that we were stuck to each other for life.

maybe everyone will start believing me about the mysterious

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence," he told me reproachfully.

I want my daughter to learn that not everything in this world is determined by how often she hears it or how much she wants it to be true or how many other people are looking. Somewhere in there, for a thing to count as real, there has got to be some actual bloody reality.

It was 4:00 p.m. Chris would be in his car, she was pretty certain, watching Boss Man pull out of the parking lot. He would wait a few seconds to be certain the

It was the only right answer.

Faith and trust come from an inner ability to believe in something unseen, to expect it to be there without ever having proof that it is.

More are a certainty. I'm in my element here. You can trust me to know when a man will be back in contact.

The truth is a strange thing. Like pornography, you know it when you see it.

I know you're innocent, there is not one doubt in my mind, but I also know that you're not here.

Cómo podría recobrar la seguridad y el aplomo de mi juventud? El mundo es demasiado para nosotros. No sólo destruye nuestra juventud, sino nuestra certidumbre.

With an index fund, the certainty of keeping up with the market is a very worthwhile trade-off for the possibility of beating it.

What Gentzen had done was prove the obvious by assuming the doubtful.

What if the experience of knowing the future changed a person? What if it evoked a sense of urgency, a sense of obligation to act precisely as she knew she would?

since I already know it would work, and it wouldn't illuminate any new gestalts.

Albert Einstein once said, "Insofar as the propositions of mathematics give an account of reality they are not certain; and insofar as they are certain they do not describe reality.

Help me to know when it's appropriate to keep looking and when it's better to ignore my doubts. Let me always be inquisitive, but never be suspicious. Amen.

What Gentzen had done was prove the obvious by assuming the doubtful. 7A

But what happened, it was almost as if I were a theologian proving that there was no God. Not just fearing it, but knowing it for a fact. [...] It's a feeling I can't convey to you. It was something that I believed deeply, implicitly, and it's not true, and I'm the one who demonstrated it.

But I was just as certain as you, and I was wrong. You may say, "I know I'm not perfect. I've made mistakes." I am here to tell you that you have made more than you think, that some of the core assumptions on which your self-image is built are actually lies. Spend some time using Remem, and you'll find out.

Anything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural.