Quotes About Certainty

Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.

We in reality only know when we doubt a little. With knowledge comes doubt.

Belief is not the beginning of knowledge- it is the end.

En helaas hebben huwelijken in het algemeen iets lomps. Ze bederven de tederste verhoudingen, en dat komt toch eigenlijk alleen door de botte zekerheid waarvan ten minste één partij profiteert. Alles is vanzelfsprekend en men lijkt de verbintenis alleen gesloten te hebben opdat beiden hun eigen gang kunnen gaan.

One cannot escape from the world with greater certainty than through art, and one cannot relate to it with greater certainty than through art.

I have given no summing up, no final verdict. Reality knows none.

But absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence'.

There was a minority among the human race, as there always had been, that found comfort in trading a personal freedom of mind and body for the relief of clinging to a stronger certainty than they were able to produce within themselves.

Even when the future's not certain, our hearts can still be certain — of love and happiness and all that's good.

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question.

Just because something is unbelievable does not mean you shouldn't believe it. Put another way, some things are worth believing in whether they're true or not.

If you have a college degree you can be absolutely sure of one thing — you have a college degree.

If it want for faith, thare would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with enny safety, if it want for faith.

On the map of faith, you are here — always right here — because you have to be to believe.

Quanto a me, non mi preoccupo mai di sapere se abbia ragione o no. Questo non ha importanza alcuna: l'uomo non può mai giungere all'ultima verità.

Uncertainty hurts more than ignorance.

I don't know nothing for sure, except water runs downhill and I gotta pay my rent.

The brain cannot reach its inner conclusions by any logic of certainty. In place of this, the brain must do two things. It must be content to accept less than certain knowledge. And it must have statistical methods which are different in kind from ours, by which it reaches its acceptable level of uncertainty. By these means, the brain constructs a picture of the world which is less than certain yet highly interlocked in its parts.

In trying to formalize a rule, we look for truth, but what we find is knowledge, and what we fail to find is certainty. This limitation has no special bearing on the knowledge of self.

in the arts of covertcy, it is death to second-guess oneself.

Believing a thing does not make it true.

When all around take fundamental ideas for granted, these must be the truth. For most minds there is no comfort like it.

Our faith is not assured, because faith can never be, it must never be a certainty.