Quotes About Certainty

After a certain age, we put on a mask of confidence and certainty. In time, that mask gets stuck to our face and we can't remove it. As children, we learn that if we cry we'll receive affection, that

It isn't the light you want to recover, it's the certainty that there is only darkness

Firstly, by learning the great lesson of wise men: patience, the certainty that everything - both good and bad - is provisional in this life. Secondly, using this sudden change of course to risk new things in daily life, to do things you always dreamed of.

We should live each and every day with the certainty that this armor will protect us from danger, and then we will no longer be bound to the duality of existence. We have to find a middle path, where there is neither joy nor suffering, only profound peace.

I wake up each morning wanting to die before the day is out, but I continue to live, suffering and fighting, fighting and suffering, clinging on to that certainty that it will all end one day.

Don't say maybe if you want to say no.

And when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only.

Todo lo que sucede una vez puede que no suceda nunca más. Pero todo lo que sucede dos veces, sucederá, ciertamente, una tercera.»

Bukan terang yang ingin kau temukan. Kau hanya ingin memastikan bahwa yang ada hanyalah kegelapan.

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong, my dear', said her father, looking at the clock. 'Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believe is the truth. But it doesn't work that way at all.

The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have.

The source of our unease is the unfulfillable longing for a lasting certainty and security, for something solid to hold on to.

When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it.

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt.

All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.

Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.

In science , all conclusions are provisional, subject to new evidence and better arguments, the very antithesis of religious faith.

When you can prove me wrong, then call me blind.

He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.

The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt

The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty.