Quotes About Certainty

Humans appear to have a need for certainty, a motivation to hold on to something rather than to question it. People with a high need for certainty are more prone to stereotypes than others and are less inclined to remember information that contradicts their stereotypes.3

plans." To be sure, illusions have their function. Small children often need security blankets to soothe their fears. Yet for the mature adult, a high need for certainty can be a dangerous thing. It prevents us from learning to face the uncertainty pervading our lives. As hard as we try, we cannot make our lives risk-free the way we make our milk fat-free.

The quest for certainty is the biggest obstacle to becoming risk savvy. While there are things we can know, we must also be able to recognize when we cannot know something.

Never ask a surgeon whether you need an operation.

It makes no sense to expect or claim to 'make the invisible visible', or the unknown known, or the unthinkable thinkable. We can draw conclusions about the invisible; we can postulate its existence with relative certainty. But all we can represent is an analogy, which stands for the invisible but is not it.

Believe me for meat and for myself.

Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.

faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.

Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

Dogmatism does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.

Trust what feels true even if that truth requires you to ignore what you know.

Practice trust in small matters for huge returns in the large ones.

Ya no mujer joven sino mujer rotunda. Mis deseos ya no intuiciones sino certezas.

Burchio. Even if this be true I do not wish to believe it, for this Infinite can neither be understood by my head nor brooked by my stomach. Although, to tell the truth, I could yet hope that Philotheo were right, so that if by ill luck I were to fall from this world I should always find myself on firm ground.

Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.

Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.

You know what the hardest thing is?" Phoebe said, as the first pair of fireworks went up. "The hardest thing is to know everything you know so far and still have faith.

There's a difference between suspecting a thing and finally knowing it for certain.

Even the written evidence offered by the executioners tells us that. And it ended with Anastasia not being buried with the rest of her family." Yakov paused. "The DNA experts can speculate all they want, but they still can't say with absolute certainty that any of the bones later found belonged to her. I doubt they ever will." I felt dazed. "How can I know that your version of events is true?

would I have known that mystery leaves a space for us when certainty does not? And would I have dared to challenge rules later in life if my father had obeyed them?

mystery leaves a space for us when certainty does not.

Believe in the truth before you believe in yourself.

Nothing beats a combination of self-belief and truth.