Quotes About Certainty

Only those things the heart believes are true.

En haec promissa fides est?

One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.

I put my bare hand on her bare hand and felt, "This is genuine. There can be no mistake about this.

There is something absolute in us which despises qualification.

Here is something definite, something real. Thus, waking from a midnight dream of horror, one hastily turns on the light and lies quiescent, worshipping the chest of drawers, worshipping solidity, worshipping reality, worshipping the impersonal world which is a proof of some existence other than ours. That is what one wants to be sure of…

Van, ahogy van, a dolog most már valahogy biztos csakugyan van.

Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

I cannot disobey something which I do not know and the reality of which I have the right to deny.

If there is anything of which I am certain in life it is that I shall never exchange the liberty of my exile for the vile parody of home.

Being a murderer with a sensational but incomplete and unorthodox memory, I cannot tell you, ladies and gentlemen, the exact day which I first knew with certainty that the red convertible was following us.

La miré y la miré, y supe con tanta certeza como que me he de morir, que la quería más que a nada imaginado o visto en la tierra, más que a nada anhelado en este mundo.

the compensation for a death sentence is knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die.

am quite willing to admit that they are also a deception but right now I believe in them so much that I infect them with truth.

the only real, genuinely unquestionable thing here was only death itself

But reality soon asserted itself.

Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer.

When you can't be sure of anything else in this crapped-on world, you have to be sure of yourself.

As far as I can see, nobody's got The Truth, The Answer, or The God.

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

Fear and pessimism make no sense when victory is guaranteed.

Inner peace and a clear conscience can't always be trusted.

Einstein said, So far as the theories of mathematics are about reality, they are not certain; so far as they are certain, they are not about reality.

Never choose half of anything just to be safe when you have a chance to have something whole and perfect.