Quotes About Certainty

Después de todo, una cosa era ser consciente de que sus sentimientos hacia Amanda no habían cambiado, y otra cosa diferente era enfrentarse al futuro con la certeza de que siempre estaría enamorado de ella.

Y cuando un hombre es tan especial, lo sabes mucho antes de lo que crees posible. Lo reconoces instintivamente, y tienes la certeza de que, pase lo que pase, nunca habrá otro como él.

Marcus tenía razón, por supuesto, pero tener razón no servía de nada si el resto del mundo estaba equivocado

The fact they could check becomes the prophecy they must believe.

The more I've learned in my life, the more acutely I've felt my hunger and blindness, and at the same time the closer I've felt to the end of hunger, the end of blindness. At times I've felt myself to be clinging onto the rim—of what I can hardly say without the risk of sounding ridiculous—only to slip and find myself deeper in the hole than ever. And there, in the dark, I find again in myself a form of praise for all that continues to crush my certainty.

Anyone who silences someone else because they believe the other person's opinion is false assumes infallibility. They must be absolutely certain that they are correct on the matter.

The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.

The great difference between us is this: you believe you have found salvation, and believing this, you are saved; I believe that salvation doesn't exist, and believing this, I am saved.

Gradually I began to understand that it does not matter very much what problem, whether big or small, is tormenting us; the only thing that matters it that we be tormented, that we find a ground for being tormented. In other words, that we exercise our minds in order to keep certainty from turning us into idiots, that we fight to open every closed door we find in front of us.

our world has a growing need for people trained in profound degrees of doubt, more so than for people skilled at handling certainties.

Are you sure you want to quit? All unsaved progress will be lost.

If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope.

El discurso de los privilegios está siempre marcado por la confianza y el triunfalismo: conocemos el camino que tenemos delante, y no hay otro camino.

What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick ! It's a sure thing! It's sure thing in a world where nothing is sure; it has a mathematical certainty in a world where those of us who long for some kind of certainty are forced to settle for crossword puzzles.

Doubt is to me the handmaiden to faith, its cop, the one that keeps faith straight. To doubt is an indication of freedom and a guard against fanaticism.

Knowing isn't always believing.

You can't know everything. Sometimes you have to trust. Sometimes you have to just feel.

When you know the answer, it's not being hardheaded. It's just being right.

Eve lifted a brow. She decided

taking it any further, I wouldn't now." "Wouldn't you?

I don't know where we are, but we can't be lost because we're here.

I'm not moving in with you. Yes, you are.

it, if you'll trust me." She laid her

occurred to him he wouldn't have to argue with himself the