Quotes About Certainty

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

It's not your job to read their hearts,' he once told me after I claimed, with shameful certainty, that begging was a profession. 'Your duty is not to doubt but to give.

Things will be as they always are," he tells me. "Only more so.

He reaches up and presses my hand to his face. ¨Its funny, isnt it, how i mocked you for your mortality when you´re certain to outlive me.¨ ¨You´re not going to die,¨ I insist. Page 289

Some things exist whether you believe in them or not

The mortals no longer want you.' Wren shook her head, because that couldn't be true. Her mother and father loved her. Her mother cut the crusts off her sandwiches and kissed her on the tip of her nose to make her giggle. Her father cuddled up with her to watch movies and then carried her to bed when she fell asleep on the couch. She knew they loved her. And yet the certainty with which Lord Jarel spoke plucked at her terror

A man who prides himself on going in a straight line through life is an idiot who believes in infallibility.

He sounded so certain. Whenever they had an argument about a point of fact, he was always so utterly confident that he had it right and she had it wrong. He never even entertained the possibility that he might be mistaken. It drove her bananas. She struggled with an irresistible urge to slap him across the face.

sounded so sure of herself, as if she knew Lars

She was all-powerful when she knew without doubt that she was in the right. But how often did you know for sure that you were right? Hardly ever.

He sounded so certain. Whenever they had an argument about a point of fact, he was always so utterly confident that he had it right and she had it wrong. He never even entertained the possibility that he might be mistaken. It drove her bananas. She struggled with an irresistible urge to slap him across the face. This

Almost sure wasn't good enough. Almost sure, in my experience, is the shortest road to oh fuck.

I just . . . knew, the way you know how to breathe or to pull your hand back from a hot stove.

Okay. I'll deal with Benjamin. You're safe, okay? Nothing's gonna happen." His mouth pulled tight against itself. And now I was having some sort of heart attack. Because when he looked at me like that, my chest started to feel like it was turned inside out. "Promise." And that—the promise, the way he said it with utter certainty—was enough to make me tear up again.

Faith and doubt both are needed — not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

You don't struggle with these questions?" "No. But I've always thought my opinion was the right one. It's a small flaw I have." "An American flaw.

What seems right isn't always right, though, is it?

If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and reassert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.

It was reassuring to know exactly where one stood. That one stood at the end of the line was not pertinent. At least there was a line in which to subsist.

If you are caught up in situations beyond your control, the solution is not figuring out how God can save you; it's trusting that he will.

Some things are true whether you believe them or not.

But it wasn't just the distance. It was what had happened to me since these days, those endless, quiet days when I thought my life would always continue in that way. When my life consisted of small, certain pieces of a larger, but basically simple, puzzle. When I was certain that I always knew where each piece fit.

Tu ne tenais pas de discours grandiloquents sur la fraternité, mais tu portais toujours une attention aux obscurs, aux vulnérables, pas uniquement parce que toi-même tu te rangeais parmi ceux-là, mais parce que les puissants pleins de certitude, ceux qui veulent à tout prix attirer la lumière sur eux, te faisaient craindre que ce monde ne devienne vraiment irrespirable.

But as for Gabriel Sullivan." Ren reach out his six-fingered hand toward me. I clasped it. Warmth flooded me. But something else. Certainty. Trust. Compassion. Courage. He pulled his hand back, smiled. "That is all I can tell you.