Quotes About Certainty

The only thing she could be certain of was that she existed. All else was suspect, even her own thoughts.

I have faith. It doesn't matter what I decide.

we read novels because they give us the comfortable sensation of living in worlds where the notion of truth is indisputable, while the actual world seems to be a more treacherous place.

Counterfactual conditionals are always true, because the premise is false. But I was there that day, so now I am where I am.

I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our backs waiting to deceive us.

Among the many certainties whose lack he complained of, one alone is present, and it is that all things appear to us as they appear to us, and it is impossible for them to appear otherwise.

En París siempre tienen la respuesta verdadera? —Nunca, pero están muy seguros de sus errores.

But sometimes you have to speak because you feel the moral obligation to say something, not because you have the 'scientific' certainty that you are saying it in an unassailable way.

It is perfectly possible that what has ever been exists always, and that what is going to be has likewise existed always. So I decided to take a new attitude of mind; I am ready to believe anything if I get enough evidence, and I hesitate before I say that anything is impossible

Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

The kind of hope that I often think about…I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we have hope within us, or we don't. It is a dimension of the soul It's not essentially dependent upon some particular observation of the world or estimate of the situation. Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

You can't prove a negative. I can't prove there are no such thing as vampires any more than you can prove you're not a lesbian.

Nothing warms the cockles of the heart more than the smug self-satisfaction of being right.

Faith is necessary to men; woe to him who believes in nothing!

Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.

Thus it is. And we sacrifice ourselves for these visions, which are almost always illusions for the sacrificed, but illusions with which, after all, the whole of human certainty is mingled. We throw ourselves into these tragic affairs and become intoxicated with that which we are about to do. Who knows? We may succeed.

Une foi ; c'est là pour l'homme le nécessaire. Malheur à qui ne croit rien !

A faith; this is a necessity for man. Woe to him who believes nothing.

Así como los hombres cansados exigen reposo, los hechos consumados exigen garantías.

What is, is, and what isn't, isn't.

There's no why to trust. It either is or isn't.

She is so certain of everything. This war is black and white for her. Nothing seems to scare her.

There's no why to trust. It either is or isn't. Will you trust me?