Quotes About Certainty

I want to be convinced with my work and unless that happens I can't make a movie.

There's no point in arguing with me- in my mind, I'm always right.

Make believe I'm right.

I know I'm right, and I know you're wrong.

The best kind of men have a certainty in themselves that isn't done in when countered by a certainty in their women, and they are much adored.

Love only knocks on your heart's door when certain it has the right address.

May the love in your heart overshadow any sorrows, and may you always know with a deep inner certainty, how loved you truly are.

I get to actually say I am a Stanford man. There's no if, ands, or buts about it.

I just don't really like starting a job if I don't know where it finishes. I want to know where something begins and ends so that you can invest something in it.

Startups have finite time and resources to find product/market fit before they run out of money. Therefore startups trade off certainty for speed, adopting 'good enough decision making' and iterating and pivoting as they fail, learn, and discover their business model.

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

I'd say the biggest difference is knowing you can do something. You can sit here and say, 'I believe I can get a hundred tomorrow'. But it's a different statement to say, 'I know I can get a hundred tomorrow'. That's something I try to think about.

I often want things to make definite statements. If I order onions sliced thinly on my hamburger, I don't want them to come out sort of medium. But that doesn't mean it's a reasonable desire, in all things.

I might not like a statute... but if you know what to expect, you can plan. The law is static. It's stable. It gives you confidence. You know you have to act a certain way.

You can't be nervous when you know your steps.

we believe certain things because they ought to be true.

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.

Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.

Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.

Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

The crimson woman has quite a few adversaries, just as she is connected with powerful allies. How can I say exactly who they are — some group specializing in art=magic, no doubt, but I can't just say, with a fatuous certainty, "Yes, it must be some particular gang of illuminati," or esoteric scientists , as so many have begun styling themselves these days.

While being alive is all right for the world's general population, some of us need to get it in writing that this is so.

Of course, there's also the basic problem that some people just aren't very bright. And as we'll see, the people who are the most certain about being right tend to be the people with the least reason to have such self-confidence.