Quotes About Certainty

Ainda bem que o que eu vou escrever já deve estar na certa de algum modo escrito em mim

De repente as coisas não precisam mais fazer sentido. Satisfaço-me em ser. Tu és? Tenho certeza que sim. O não sentido das coisas me faz ter um sorriso de complacência. De certo tudo deve estar sendo o que é.

Simplesmente sou eu. E você é você. É vasto, vai durar. (...) Olha para mim e me ama. Não: tu olhas para ti e te amas. É o que está certo.

o que parece falta de sentido – é o sentido. Todo momento de "falta de sentido" é exatamente a assustadora certeza de que ali há o sentido, e que não somente eu não alcanço, como não quero porque não tenho garantias.

Life really just barely escapes me though the certainty comes to me that life is other and has a hidden style

The doubter is a true man of science; he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.

Indeed, proof that a given condition always precedes or accompanies a phenomenon does not warrant concluding with certainty that a given condition is the immediate cause of that phenomenon. It must still be established that when this condition is removed, the phenomen will no longer appear.

Science repulses the indefinite.

The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.

Sin embargo, es el cientificismo y no la ciencia propiamente dicha el que desestima cualquier autoridad distinta a la suya.

all the evidence to prove that

un point assez mystérieux et en tout cas non élucidé de la nature humaine : l intolérance a l incertitude, intolérance telle qu elle entraine beaucoup d hommes a souffrir les pires et les plus réels des maux en échange de l espoir, si vague soit-il, d un rien de certitude.

Often, simply knowing the answer is the largest hurdle to overcome when formulating a proof.

What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?

Whatever doubt might rise, he knew that he was right. But the rightness was an intellectual rightness and the doubt emotional.

Any speculation or revelation is not exactly an affirmation or denial of a mistake. Facts are not mistakes.

The moon does not appear above all places where we stand. We know it is there, even when we have doubts that it may not be visible in the coming days.

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

Nothing happens carelessly. We're not brought into the world without reason, even though we may never understand the reason. An infant that lives an hour, that dies before it can lay eyes on those who made it, even that soul did not live without purpose: this is my sudden certainty.

Though neither of them had ever called their meeting a case of love at first sight, they'd both agreed it had certainly been a case of "pretty damned sure at first hour.

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

Faith is believing that the outcome will be what it should be, no matter what it is.

Because it is so unbelievable, the truth often escapes being known.

But with all its truth, the argument cannot answer the time-honored question: who educates the educators, and where is the proof that they are in possession of "the good?