Quotes About Certainty

In them and between them flourished the heat of life, the madness of love, and the sudden absolute certainty of the end of all that they knew.

You need to march your doubt out into a field and put a .357 round in the back of its head. Let its death soak into the earth, grow the wheat, make bread from its blood. Because, for real, fuck doubt. Fuck doubt right in its wax-clogged ear.

They couldn't invent answers and assume they were true because they hadn't yet disproved them.

One becomes very strong when one abandons all one's doubts.

Those who blindly trust cannot be enlightened.

What has to prove true for this to work?

But do you know what? Gravity doesn't care! It will always pull things down, and I may as well plan on it.

There is nothing more terrifying than those who are certain that what they believe is undeniably true.

Study nothing except in the knowledge that you already knew it. Worship nothing except in adoration of your true self. And fear nothing except in the certainty that you are your enemy's begetter and its only hope of healing.

Of all the rash and midnight promises made in the name of love, none, Boone now knew, was more certain to be broken than I'll never leave you.

There was little comfort, this voice inside him said, in discovering a mystery at the wellspring of his life so banal his unremarkable mind could readily fathom it. Better, perhaps, to die in doubt, knowing there was some revelation still unfound, than to pursue and possess such a wretched certainty.

That's half of your trouble, muttered the crocodile. You believe everything's true. That's because everything is, replied Mr. Bacchus.

Nothing's right .... except what you feel and know.

Give me ambiguity or give me something else.

If Pitt tells you there's a Santa Claus, hang your stocking on the mantel, because you better believe it.

is almost a certainty that a well-planned offense will defeat an unplanned defense every single time.

Es ist nicht bewiesen, aber es ist wahrscheinlich und wenn es wahrscheinlich ist, dann war es wahrscheinlich so.

The Declaration [of Independence] is like a map. You trust that it's right but you only know by going out and testing it yourself.

each opportunity for escape was undermined by his certainty that things were about to go back to normal, that this savage new reality could not hold.

world. They didn't need people to say what they meant. The tables and facts couldn't be shaped into what they were not. The

Frank pitied anyone naïve enough to believe they could predict with certainty how another human being would act.

That is the one eternal education; to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child."11

They must not lose hope but should keep their courage in the certainty that the hopelessness of our struggle did not detract from its dignity and its meaning.

must not lose hope but should keep their courage in the certainty that the hopelessness of our struggle did not detract from its dignity and its meaning. I said that someone looks down on each of us in difficult hours—a friend, a wife, somebody alive or dead, or a God—and he would not expect us to disappoint him. He would hope to find us suffering proudly—not miserably—knowing how to die. And finally