Quotes About Certainty

The less evidence we have for what we believe is certain, the more violently we defend beliefs against those who don't agree.

One of the great challenges in this world is knowing enough about a subject to think you're wright, but not enough about the subject to know you're wrong.

One of the great challenges in this world is knowing enough about a subject to think you're right, but not enough about the subject, to know you're wrong.

Do whatever it takes to avoid fooling yourself into believing that something is true when it is false, or that something is false when it is true.

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe it.

One of the great challenges in this world is knowing enough to think you're right, but not enough about the subject to know you're wrong.

upon learning of a 1931 book entitled One Hundred Authors Against Einstein,†† he responded that if he were wrong, then only one would have been enough.

Objective truths apply to all people, places, and things, as well as all animals, vegetables, and minerals. Some of these truths apply across all of space and time. They are true even when you don't believe in them.

Credo quia impossibile.' I believe it because it is impossible.

I'd written my name on the blackboard, and under my name I wrote the name of the course for the would-be Sherlock Holmeses who needed more than the instructor's name and room number to be certain they were in the right place.

that the problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.

the rule is, If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it's a duck.

li quali non credano in verità le cose nuove, se non ne veggono nata una ferma esperienza.

He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he'd been lucky enough to find her.

When I was seventeen, I don't think I even knew what love was. But when it's right, it's right, and you just know it.

When a man is that special, you know it sooner than you think possible. You recognize it instinctively, and you're certain that no matter what happens, there will never be another one like him.

Does trust have to be earned. Or is it simply a matter of faith?

and then you stopped. And looked at me. And I knew then exactly what was going to happen. You kissed me, yes. But it was not just goodnight. Even then, I could feel the promise in it. The promise that you would kiss me just like that, forever.

Katie smiled and turned away, knowing it wasn't an illusion or a figment of her imagination. She knew what she saw. She knew what she believed.

What I do know is that when I was sitting with you that night, I felt like God was telling me that I was doing the right thing.

It was one thing, after all, to know his feelings for Amanda hadn't changed; it was another thing entirely to face the future with the certainty that they never would.

Do trust have to be earned? Or is it simple a matter of faith?

I would have married Jamie Sullivan no matter what happened in the future. I would have married Jamie Sullivan if the miracle I was praying for had suddenly come true. I knew it at the moment I asked her, and I still know it today.