Quotes About Certainty

God is love, but get it in writing.

Acaso la juventud es sólo eso: un trance de creer, un asentimiento a la promesa. Entonces todo es una promesa que el mundo ocupa luego con su verdad.

If you want to do something and you feel in your bones that it's the right thing to do, do it. Intuition is often as important as the facts. 663

Those who made such models took for granted that, from present to future, the laws of motion provide a bridge of mathematical certainty. Understand the laws and you understand the universe. That was the philosophy behind modeling weather on a computer.

Incompleteness was real. It meant that mathematics could never be proved free of self-contradiction.

But besides all that, he was a man one simply didn't make mistakes about—to see him once was to know him always.

He had suddenly come to realize a single facet of the promised jewel; he had Time, Time for everything that he wished to happen, such Time that desire itself was quenched in the certainty of fulfillment.

To make up for all I have forgotten, there is this that I have acquired, and I call it sophistication since it is not quite the same thing as learning. It is the flexible armour of doubt in an age when too many people are certain.

the will of man and the lunacy of God. It must be satisfying to be quite certain which way to look at it.

Don't Second guess me.. "Trust me, you do not want to see me come unglued.

Can you imagine. Not only can you reason and compromise. You know what you're going to do next!

My opinion may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right.

It's a Fact, "They weren't lying. They firmly believed it all. Which doesn't change the facts." We have our opinions, let's go with mine.

Believe in yourself. "You see, the point is that there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you.

If you would argue until the end of life, the infallible creature must alone be right.

Physical death is only one form of dying. There are other forms of dying: We die whenever fear governs our choices. We die when we sacrifice growth for security. We die whenever we choose a convenient certainty over an inconvenient mystery.

Where do you refuse to grow up, wait for certainty of wisdom before choosing, hope for solutions to emerge fully formed, expect rescue, or wait for a guru to make sense of it all for you?

Anxiety is treated by a search for certainty. And certainty – wherever we think we've found it – will lead to dogma. And wherever we have dogma, in time, it leads to rigidity. And that rigidity ultimately leads to idolatry.

Conviction and intensity are not the coin of truth, they alone can never buy it.

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

Thus the unfacts, did we possess them, are too imprecisely few to warrant our certitude...

Life seemed to him a gift; the statement 'I am alive' seemed to him to contain a satisfactory certainty and many other things, held up as indubitable, seemed to him uncertain.

Quietly, sure of his ground, he traversed the dismal fields.

A healthy skepticism is good, even God-given. However, a need to cynically dismiss anything we cannot personally verify is arrogance. God