Quotes About Certainty

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.

Everyone on Twitter - everyone on the Internet - seems so damn certain. Brevity doesn't allow for nuance, and it's a nice complement to confidence.

Some of my friends said, 'You are nuts.' But I think I am right.

Mio padre possedeva sicurezze incrollabili su certe faccende inerenti all'universo. Per lui, tutte le cose buone – dalle trote alla salute eterna – derivavano dalla grazia, e la grazia dall'arte, e l'arte non è una cosa facile.

Why is it,' he said quietly, 'that quite often even the things which are correct just don't seem to be right?

I'm the Whether Man, not the Weather Man, for after all it's more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be.

And you are almost never right about anything,' he said, pointing at the Humbug. 'and, when you are, it's usually an accident.

When he had repeated them often enough, they became a decision.

When the universe compels me toward the best path to take, it never leaves me with maybe, should I, or even perhaps. I always know for sure when it's telling me to proceed - because everything inside me rises up to reverberate YES!

When you know something, really know something, it tends to stand the test of time.

YaÅŸad???m?z hayat?n bir baÅŸkas?n?n düÅŸü olduÄŸunu kan?tlaman?n hiçbir ÅŸeyi deÄŸiÅŸtirmeyeceÄŸini biliyordum art?k.

Bunlara kaç kiÅŸi inan?yor? dedi yorgun, b?kk?n bir havayla. Biraz ilgi gören ve bundan ba?? dönen h?rsl? her vaiz, dinin elden gittiÄŸini söylemeye baÅŸlar. En saÄŸlam ekmek kap?s? budur.

Initially, the talk of misery spreads throughout the neighborhood, becoming in turn the rumor of ill-fortune and later the certainty of doom.

Çok doÄŸru," dedi Süleyman. Bana kal?rsa bana hak verdiÄŸi için deÄŸil, Hazreti Peygamber'li, Kuran-? Kerim'li bir lafa asla kar?? ç?kamad??? için

A felicidade que sentira apenas alguns instantes antes agora dava lugar a uma terrível certeza de que a iria perder

The world takes us at our own valuation. It believes in the man who believes in himself, but it has little use for the timid man, the one who is never certain of himself; who cannot rely on his own judgment, who craves advice from others, and is afraid to go ahead on his own account.

Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.

Faith doesn't mean that you never doubt. It only means that you never act upon your doubts.

No one can know a false thing, one can only believe it with certainty until it is contradicted. (Page 7)

If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly ... but at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in. I follow [God], I believe [God], because I want to live in the world that [God] has shown me.

I am a disbeliever in the unbelievable.

And that's as sure as we ever are of anything. We believe it enough to act as though it's true. When we'r'e that sure, we call it knowledge. Facts. We bet our lives on it.

We're not taking odds on it," said Ender. "Nothing that actually happens is likely until it exists, and then it's certain. You exist.