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Quotes About Certainty

Só descredo no incrível." I only disbelieve the unbelievable.
~ Orson Scott Card
Now she understood that someone had to end the council by declaring specifically what had been decided and what must happen next. Without absolute clarity, people would go off and dither, especially if they had doubts about the decision.
~ Orson Scott Card
Why did he hesitate? He finally admitted to himself that he was like an American child who was almost completely certain about Santa Claus, but dared not ask for fear the answer would lead to the end of the annual largesse of Christmas.
~ Orson Scott Card
And that's as sure as we ever are of anything. We believe it enough to act as though it's true. When we're that sure, we call it knowledge. Facts. We bet our lives on it.
~ Orson Scott Card
And that's as sure as we ever are of anything. We believe it enough to act as though it's true. When we're that sure, we call it knowledge. Facts. We bet our lives on it." "I guess that's what you're doing. Betting your life on her being what you think she is.
~ Orson Scott Card
Only fools think that truth disappears when the boundaries of belief are crossed.
~ Orson Scott Card
O Sehnor e descrente?' You're an unbeliever? 'So descredo no increivel.' I only disbelieve the unbelievable.
~ Orson Scott Card
I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.
~ Orson Scott Card
Nothing that actually happens is likely until it exists, and then it's certain. You exist.
~ Orson Scott Card
Ambition leads you to great risk. But ambition never leads you to certain destruction." "Unless you're a fool.
~ Orson Scott Card
Damn Dap and damn you too, sir, I know what I'm doing." "Do you?" "Better than anyone else." "Oh, that is obvious, since nobody else has the faintest idea what you're doing.
~ Orson Scott Card
I know it as much as anyone knows anything. Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.
~ Orson Scott Card
That's the truth—what is, what was, what will be—not what could be, what should have been, what never can be.
~ Orson Scott Card
I know. In fact, I am never wrong.
~ Oscar Wilde
Even things that are true can be proved.
~ Oscar Wilde
Some things in life just become very clear and we don't need a reason for them at all: I knew at that moment what I'd have to do.
~ Colum McCann
He wanted to hear his own footsteps to prove that he trod the ground.
~ Colum McCann
We're just not convinced that's the right path. It's not a path, it's a fact.
~ Colum McCann
There is nothing more real than what cannot be seen and there is nothing more certain than what cannot be heard.
~ Confucious
The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct
~ Confucius
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it--this is knowledge.
~ Confucius
lesson about knowledge? When you know a thing, maintain that you know it; and when you do not, acknowledge your ignorance. This is characteristic of knowledge.
~ Confucius
Nimeni nu crede niciodat? ceea ce se întâmpl?, decât dup? ce e prea târziu.
~ Connie Willis
Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
~ Cormac McCarthy