Quotes About Certainty

Ci si myslite, ze to dokaze, alebo nedokaze, v oboch pripadoch mate pravdu.

Whether you believe you can or you believe you can't, you are correct.

Her ?ey mümkündür...'?nanç , ümit edilen ?eylerin esas? , görülmeyen ?eylerin delilidir

Che tu creda di farcela o no, hai comunque ragione.

Quer você ache que pode, quer ache que não pode, de um jeito ou de outro você está certo.

The fatal futility of Fact.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

It has the added advantage of being true.

Knud Ulfson did not like those words; but he knew that Harald Sigurdson never spoke unless he meant what he said. Indeed, along the fjord there was a fire-saying which went: 'Thunder threatens but may not strike; Rain threatens but may blow over; Wolf snarls but may not bite; When Harald snarls, your life is over.

He seemed the incarnate "Well, I told you so!"

There is nothing, nothing certain but the nothingness of all that is comprehensible to us, and the grandeur of something incomprehensible, but more important!

Why ask? Why doubt what you cannot help knowing? Why use words when words cannot express what one feels?

If in Doubt, don't do it

There is nothing certain, nothing at all except the unimportance of everything I understand, and the greatness of something incomprehensible but all-important.

If you want to be right, I can give you that satisfaction. You're in the right; but I'm going all the same.

If I desired anything, I knew in advance that whether I satisfied my desire or not, nothing would come of it.

Now, in that moment, he knew that neither all his doubts, nor the impossibility he knew in himself of believing by means of reason, hindered him in the least from addressing God. It all blew off his soul like dust.

His director told him, as material food was necessary for the body life, spiritual food is necessary for spiritual life. This was result of his consciousness of humility, certainty that whatever he had to do was right.

But by the term 'scientific' is understood just what was formerly understood by the term 'religious': just as formerly everything called 'religious' was held to be unquestionable simply because it was called religious, so now all that is called 'scientific' is held to be unquestionable.

And the main thing is," he continued, "that I know, and know for certain, that the enjoyment of doing this good is the only sure happiness in life.

Death is more certain than tomorrow, night after day, winter after summer. So why do we prepare for tomorrow, night and winter, but not death?

Levin resolved the first question at once, with extraordinary ease, though it had seemed so difficult to him before.

A country cannot live in disorder, incompetence, irresponsibility, uncertainty, and corruption.

When people are committed to a belief and a course of action, clear disconfirming evidence may simply result in deepened conviction and increased proselyting. But there does seem to be a point at which the disconfirming evidence has mounted sufficiently to cause the belief to be rejected.